Quotes About Democracy

Each and every vote counts. For a better nation, please go ahead and vote.

I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.

In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about ourselves.

Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

Our aid budget has a crucial role to play in shaping the world according to our universal values of democracy, enterprise and justice.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

To help advance democracy, we need to allow for the reunification of Cuban families and the direct sending of remittances to the island's brave dissidents.

We have an educated and cynical electorate.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

Hong Kong was promised democracy under the framework known as 'one country, two systems,' and China is ignoring this promise. The international community should be more attuned to this. It matters.

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several years, that paper ballots with a precinct optical scan counters and random audits is the best system that we can have.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.

We got to make sure that the Democratic Party is not just Democratic, but seen to be Democratic. That means we got to have systems in place that makes sure that everybody who participates in a primary is perceived to have an equal shot with everybody else.

We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities.

Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.

Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.

Money's dominance over politics isn't merely one problem of many our country faces. It is the problem! It is a growing crisis that prevents us from tackling anything else.

An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.