Democracy Quotes - Page 103

Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.

For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and are not corrected by the so-called immune system of democracy, a free press and a free democratic discourse.

American democracy has been hacked.

In the age of the internet, with all of its problems, over time, the very fact that individuals can join the conversation creates the opportunity for the emergence of - for the re-emergence of a genuine conversation of democracy.

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

Let me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion.

The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.

All of the dirty tricks, basically, the Russians employ to tear down liberal democracy, we need to work together on a bipartisan basis, and we need the president Trump help. We can't do it alone. And that has to begin by his acknowledgment of the facts.

It was an echo of Director Comey's testimony that Trump showed no curiosity, no interest, no concern over the Russia hack. The only element of it that concerned him was how it might impact him personally. That says, I think, a lot about where the president is coming from, but it was quite jarring given this was an attack on our democracy by a foreign power.

The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.

Perhaps it's time to start examining countries that have made democracy work while still having some kind of the same relationship in covenant with their population. Perhaps we need to look at the Scandinavian countries, or Canada, or something else, but whatever we have now, I think we just have to acknowledge, ain't workin.

Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.