The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people’s democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China’s national conditions. – Hu Jintao
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. – Gustave Flaubert
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board. – Grover Cleveland
Citizens United didn’t work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes. – Henry Rollins
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth. – Hunter S. Thompson
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. – Herman Melville
It’s fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets. – Helen Clark
Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder. – Hank Johnson
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles. – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed. – Helen Thomas
China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law. – Hu Jintao
Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few. – Ha-Joon Chang
Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. – Herbert Croly
The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan. – Henry A. Wallace
If you get so unequal that people believe they don’t have a chance, that the field isn’t level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk. – Hillary Clinton
All countries in my part of the world, we want democracy to prevail. I told the people, ‘If you want American policies to stop, we need to take action.’ We need to make the U.S. understand that its meddling is inappropriate. – Hassan Rouhani
The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom. – Herbert Hoover
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. – H. L. Mencken
The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future. – Henry Giroux
The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values. – Henry Giroux
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. – H. L. Mencken