Quotes About Democracy

Azam Khan must be barred from contesting polls.

I stand in support of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations and all Canadians who find themselves with no voice in our present version of democracy, who are trying to come up with the entry fee that gets them a seat at the table where their pollution future is being discussed.

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

Don't make election popularity largely a matter of which candidate hires the most creative and effective propagandists. Insist that it be, instead, a running conversation with the public.

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.

Black Lives Matter has no more to do with black issues than Students for a Democratic Society had to do with democracy. They are means to an end, and they use the black population as sacrifices for their goals.

In some states, the population is pretty low and if 5,000 kids vote, they could completely change the political atmosphere.

Abolish the monarchy. That is my populist take.

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

I tell you, if I was in the same position I was in 1975, trying to leave a communist country and trying to live a free life, America is not the country that I would think about going to considering how many rights the GOP is trying to take away.

Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office.

When people understand that they are constantly monitored, they are more conformist - they are less willing to take up controversial positions - and that kind of mass conformity is incompatible with democracy.

The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.

Communism and fascism were born out of frustration with an establishment that still knew royalty and possessed very few of the characteristics we commonly attribute to democracy today.

America is strong because its journalism is strong. That's how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses. And that is where we come in.

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

I think that if the Postal Service dies, it will be the end of democracy as we know it.