Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Dahl

If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified in governing economic enterprises is to imply that it is not justified in governing the state.

Robert A. Heinlein

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

Robert A. Heinlein

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

Tim Allen

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

Robert Bourassa

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

Tommy Douglas

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

Tom Tancredo

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

Vilfredo Pareto

Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.

Victor Hugo

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

Robert Bork

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Rick Mercer

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

Thomas Paine

Government is best which governs least

Timothy Garton Ash

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

Stephane Hessel

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

Vaclav Klaus

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

Vaclav Klaus

As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

Steven Pinker

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

Richard Grossman

I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Rush Limbaugh

The Democrats can't lose, so they got rid of Bob Torricelli, way beyond when it was permissible. The time for a replacement had passed, but the New Jersey Supreme Court made up of Democrat hacks said, "Hey, if our candidate can't go, sure you can put in a replacement."

Rush Limbaugh

It's abundantly clear the Democrats want to eliminate us.

Rush Limbaugh

They [Democrats] don't even want us around.

Virginia Foxx

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

Van Jones

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

Vladimir Putin

In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.

Vladimir Putin

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.