Democracy Quotes - Page 79

Lokmanya Tilak said "Swaraj is my birthright" but now the people of India must say, "Surajya is my birthright".

The 2014 elections are not about winning or losing, but of ensuring a bright future for India. It is about sowing the seeds for a 'Bhavya' and a 'Divya Bharat'.

Every voter is a Bharat Bhagya Vidhata.

This is an election where there is a tea seller from the Opposition, and to defeat him, everyone has come together. They say Modi should not come. This is because those who looted the nation know that after 16th May what is going to happen.

This is an election of hope. It is bringing a new trust. These elections will give new strength to the nation.

Winning and losing is a part of democracy.

I am not asking for 60 months to sit and enjoy power, but to be the Chowkidaar of the country.

It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort.

Children who can barely say maa, pappa, are saying Ab ki baar Modi sarkar. This is the power of democracy.

While 1857 was about 'Swaraj ki ladai', the 2014 elections would be about 'Surajya ki ladai'.

In a democracy, everyone has the right to criticise the Government.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA. I have seen the strength of democracy. If there were no democracy then someone like me, Modi, a child born in a poor family, how would he sit here? This is the strength of democracy.

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

Our nation is rich and our people can be rich. 2014 elections is a fight against poverty.

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy.

Christians living in a democracy should always vote if they can. If they cannot in conscience bring themselves to vote for any of the candidates on offer (in the UK quite often there are several candidates for a parliamentary seat) they might consider deliberately spoiling the ballot paper as a sad protest which still says 'but I believe in being involved'.

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.

You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

America has value-based leadership. America is valued - America is followed by other nations, including my own nation, because it's based on the values that America has to offer to the rest of the world - freedom, freedom of choice, democracy, open market.

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.