Democracy Quotes - Page 98

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Cuba will be able to move towards freedom and democracy once again.

Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.

Democracy is to have different ideas, even extreme ones. In democracy there is space for all of them and bridges to connect them. In Turkey we are losing those bridges, and everyone is trying to destroy spaces for the opposite side. When we look at this, Istanbul is like different courtyards divided by big, thick walls.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

My joke about Aaron Sorkin is that The West Wing was a great show about democracy, run by Kim Jong-Il!

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we'd had to do. We had a majority. We were against the war and this created a crisis for democracy and a crisis for the antiwar movement.

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.

I would love to have the endorsement of every progressive organization in America. We're very proud to have received recently the endorsement of MoveOn.org. We've received the endorsement Democracy for America. These are grassroots organizations representing millions of workers.

I would love it if everybody in America agreed with me on every issue. I can't get my wife to agree with me on every issue, let alone the American people. It's called democracy. That's what it's about.

You see in Turkey, they had a remarkable success story in building up a democracy. I was in Istanbul for most of the year 1950. That was the year when the government held free and fair election, was defeated and simply withdrew from power and handed it over to the opposition, without precedent in Middle Eastern history. That was a really remarkable time and it was a fascinating and rewarding experience to be there at that time.