Democracy Quotes - Page 70

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people.

Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.

People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of her. She was, we must never forget, a public figure. And in democracies, public figures tend to attract criticism as well as praise. The most dangerous thing would be if anybody were regarded as above criticism. And Eleanor Roosevelt is, in recent years, getting there.

It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.

Socialism as I understand it is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

I wrote the tunes. I was the driving force. The rest were quite happy just to go along with things. But it was more of a democracy then.

An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy.

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

Sadly, in this country - maybe this is in the history of the world, really - it's the urban experience versus the bucolic experience. And it is different, but therein lies the slow progression of democracy. We are a melting pot.

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.

Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.

I've never been in the studio where it felt like I didn't have a voice. Whether I was co-producing or producing by myself, this community is the one place where I really see democracy at its purest.

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

Different generations and people of different ethnic origins have different views on China. But they all agree on one thing. That is democracy.