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Democracy Quotes

While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left.

Power Government Fight Democracy

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Good Democracy Process Course

Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself.

Happy Democracy Story Facts Voting

While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.

Women Democracy World America Enjoy

The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.

Democracy Development Conditions

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

Hope Democracy World Help Nation

Democracy doesn't automatically safeguard women and minorities.

Anand Giridharadas

Women Democracy Minorities Safeguard

I have no illusions about our elected politicians. Pakistani democracy is anything but perfect.

Democracy Perfect Anything Illusions

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.

Empathy Democracy Thinking Thrive

It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

Religion Democracy World Capitalism

The right to religious freedom and the right to vote are both fundamental to our democracy.

Freedom Democracy Vote Right Our

I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more centralized governance and the scope for democracy - democratic control - will be resolved through an even stronger role of the European Parliament.

Democracy Control World Believe View

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

Democracy Liberty Islam Individualism

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

Life Democracy Voice Rich Powerful

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

Democracy Bureaucracy Way Need Core

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Democracy Reach Feather Hear Boa

Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

Democracy Reality Conversation Casual

For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

Respect People Me Democracy Free

We want to be a country with a competitive edge in the world. And a country with a solid democracy. To do that, we need to attack the social problems, and extreme poverty is probably the worst of those.

Juan Manuel Santos

Democracy World Problems Poverty

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

Muqtada al Sadr

People Democracy Peaceful Dirty Away

The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.

Life Democracy Country Know Need

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

Democracy Think Always Something

Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them new by dissecting and repurposing public speech, prying its falsehoods from its half-truths. It is fighting for its right to critique our would-be democracy.

Poetry Democracy Think Fighting New

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

Democracy Society Think Security

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