But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled. – Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Thru the auspices of the viewers who become – I think this is an import – in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals. – Robert Stack
Being ‘at the mercy of legislative majorities’ is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. – Robert Bork
The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy’s day; I’d estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy – they see themselves as fighting for the survival of civilization, after all. – Rick Perlstein
Even though the Bush campaign ad tells you that Afghanistan is a new democracy at the Olympics because of Bush’s efforts, Afghanistan hasn’t actually had an election. – Peter Schuyler
The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously. – Russ Feingold
The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy. – Robert Kennedy
There is a crisis on the Right. It sees the Jewish and democratic state as a democracy for the Jews. This is something I cannot countenance. – Reuven Rivlin
There is no one in al-Nahda that is ‘violence is a means of change or to keep power.’ Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power. – Rashid al-Ghannushi
We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries. – Richard Holbrooke
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. – Reinhold Niebuhr
I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Once you don’t vote your ideals… that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. – Ralph Nader
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction. – Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. – Paul Wolfowitz
We are losing the democracy that we’re trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation. – Rosie O’Donnell
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. – Robert M. Hutchins
If immigration reform doesn’t happen, that doesn’t say good things about our democracy, that everybody wants it, but Congress couldn’t pass it. – Pete Gallego
There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it’s through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy. – Richard Armitage
If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes. – Peter L. Berger
You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don’t live in a democracy. Remember, they’re princesses. – Richard Corliss
Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. – Ronald Reagan
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. – Sandra Day O’Connor
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people. – Olof Palme