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Democracy Quotes

It's crucial to democracy and good government to scrutinize our public officials.

Good Government Democracy Our Public

However flawed democracy is, it is still the only answer.

Democracy Answer Only Still Flawed

The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.

Elizabeth Coleman

Democracy Problem Politicians Up

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Freedom Democracy Political Dignity

The Americans' position is clear: we promote democracy.

Democracy Position Clear Promote

Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.

Religion Democracy Important Rights

I like the noise of democracy.

Democracy Noise Like

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

Travel People Door Democracy America

If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century.

John Ralston Saul

Live Great Democracy You Late Naive

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

Atifete Jahjaga

Life Politics Democracy Better Build

It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.

Democracy Easy Fall Believing Will

Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

Imagination Democracy Search Never

Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working.

Juan Manuel Santos

Walk Democracy Direction Walking You

Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.

Peace Environmental Democracy Way

There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

Katharine Graham

Government Democracy Believe Secrets

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

Death Government Me Democracy Idea

We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape a new economy and a new democracy that don't force them to choose between making a living and being a part of a healthy democracy.

Women Democracy Building Black Labor

The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy.

Decision Democracy Problems Face Us

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Dedication Law Democracy Political

Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Law Democracy Rule Of Law Talk Rule

If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.

Democracy Matter Colour Liberal Then

Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

Democracy Africa Possible Suitable

I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.

Freedom Respect Democracy Think Side

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Government People Democracy Hands Up

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