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Democracy Quotes

Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.

Live Day Government Fight Democracy

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

Michelle Bachelet

Women Me Democracy Better Vote Only

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

Democracy Islam Question First Major

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Words Democracy Bar Level Should

While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.

Day Democracy Speech Exercise Right

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.

Robert Greenwald

Change Democracy Speak Think True

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

Brooks Atkinson

War Democracy Little Save Less Each

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

Democracy Fair Discussion Essential

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

Democracy Slavery America Institution

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Work Democracy Political Noise Well

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

War People Democracy World Political

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Culture Democracy View Cannot

Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

Hope I Am Democracy Feel Lips House

The G7 - and earlier, the G8 - were a group of countries that shared the same values with regard to freedom and democracy, and through the annexation of Crimea, Russia made it clear at a certain point that these values of keeping the peace, integrity of the borders of a country were not being respected.

Integrity Freedom Peace Democracy

Israel, an embattled democracy, has been fighting terrorism for over 100 years.

Democracy Fighting Terrorism Over

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

Democracy America You Know Believing

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

Democracy Care Take Care You Stop

Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy.

God Freedom Democracy Forget Vote

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

Democracy Fly Now Three Airport Run

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

Democracy Enemies Only Many Them

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

Daniel Barenboim

Trust Risks Step Democracy Chance

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

Sad Democracy You Too Much Know Too

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

Armstrong Williams

Democracy Action Free Meaning Hand

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

Fear Government People Democracy Shy

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