I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction. – Samuel P. Huntington
Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for ‘democracy’ has meant different things to different people at different times and places. – Robert A. Dahl
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians. – Russell Simmons
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. – Robert Orben
I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving. – Pete Domenici
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority. – Robert W. Welch, Jr.
There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That’s it. – Richard Dreyfuss
I have – I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else – I can assure of that. – Ron Davies
Democracy’s a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it’s no longer democracy, is it? It’s something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. – Sam Shepard
Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy. – Robert Reich
I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps. – Ricardo Alarcon
There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing. – Rebecca MacKinnon
The idea that the State of Israel could be democracy only for its Jewish citizens is unconscionable, and we must find a way to address this. – Reuven Rivlin
The state must protect the media. In a democracy, the role of media is very important. In the absence of a credible opposition party, you can rely on the media. – Rodrigo Duterte
Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. – Robert Kennedy
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background. – Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Obama is cutting back on the idea that we’re going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else. – Robert Dallek
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. – Paul Wellstone
The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it’s for setting up a puppet government. – Peter Camejo
We don’t have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth. – Robert Reich
I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy. – Reuven Rivlin
Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective. – Paul Biya