I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.
We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
It's not up to one individual to decide, 'I'm going to dictate the outcome of what's going to happen legislatively.' That is not a democracy; it's an atrocity.
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.
Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.
We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.
Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
I suspect that a lot of the frustration people feel about government would feel a lot better if we had corporate influence out of our politics and were running a democracy like the founding fathers intended.
We can build a better, more representative democracy through technology and ensure what Abraham Lincoln called the last, best hope for Earth will endure past the 21st Century.
Democracy must learn to defend itself.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.
As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues.
You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.
The Constitution is worth saving, the rule of law is worth saving, democracy is worth saving, but these things can and will be lost if everyone waits around for someone else.
The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.
Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.
The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.
One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
I believe India and Israel should focus on building bilateral relations on the basis of shared perspectives and commonalities between our two democracies. This has to be a forward-looking exercise rather than harking back to perceptions of the past.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
