Democracy Quotes - Page 73

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties... the Iranian youth need more freedom. They are struggling for more freedom and democracy. This commands great respect.

Democracy doesn't recognize east or west and democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

Islam is not an excuse for thwarting democracy.

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy.

I would recommend any American who wants to understand where the government is going in the next four years of George W. Bush presidency to get a copy of her confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It's a road map, and it's pretty frightening testimony. Their definition of where democracy should go in the Middle East doesn't include Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan; it only includes Iraq, Iran, and Syria.

Nations are like people. Once you understand the interactions between nations, it's easy to understand why things are done, in terms of foreign policy, in a certain way. But nations are not like people in the sense that we are cumulatively represented by others - and their interpretations of what our interests are may not be the same as what they really are. And that's what's dangerous, even in a democracy.

It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.

We expect Germany to push more strongly for democracy and human rights in Turkey.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.

Democracies are not very stable.

It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances on it. It's precisely because this is a representative republic that we have survived.

In America, we do not have a democracy. It's not what we have. We have a representative republic and therefore the rules and regulations that have been written to maintain it are not truly democratic - not purely democratic - in origin. They are about protecting and defending the establishment of this republic.