How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women? – Jeannette Rankin
Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end. – Hun Sen
Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state – the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech. – Jan Koum
Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs. – Joe Biden
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew. – Ibrahim Babangida
Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics. – Isabel Allende
Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy. – Ismail Haniyeh
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election. – Bill Vaughan
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. – Bertrand Russell
The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come… It’s an honor and a privilege. I was called and I’ve got to be here. – Antonio Villaraigosa
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. – Abraham Lincoln
Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan. – Asif Ali Zardari
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. – J. William Fulbright
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. – James Russell Lowell
The second ‘Postal Service’ album is threatening to become the ‘Chinese Democracy’ of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won’t. – Ben Gibbard
It’s true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails. – Benazir Bhutto
The stories from Iran’s present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. – Azar Nafisi
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury. – John Oliver
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy. – Ibrahim Babangida
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. – Abbie Hoffman
Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history. – Charles Kennedy
Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments. – Ivan Krastev
With the end of the cold war, all the ‘isms’ of the 20th century – Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism – have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind. – Jack Kemp