Famous Quotes & Sayings

Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to influence state law. Little old me spoke and I was heard. It?s democracy in action.

Fox has been a disappointment. He has not been a total failure. But all of a sudden we find that some of the instruments that make democracy possible are not working.

Ayad Allawi

Freedom and democracy are great goals we should achieve, ... We have great duties to face and stand up to.

I don't think you can sell democracy at the point of an M-16. We're just trying to force it down their throats.

David Anderson

I feel like it is a dictatorship instead of a democracy.

Al Gore

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

Brad Pitt

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

Barbara Boxer

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

Colin Powell

Our model of politics is one that it is inclusive of all members of the society; all should be represented. That is the nature of our democracy.

Cullen Hightower

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

Anatole France

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Andrew Vachss

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Chuck Hagel

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

Chuck Hagel

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

Amos Oz

All of my novels are democracies.

Anthony Eden

Drift is the demon of democracy.

Annette Lu

Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

Angela Davis

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

Andre Malraux

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Ambrose Bierce

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

Anthony Kennedy

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

Alexis de Tocqueville

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Drew Carey

What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

Dolores Huerta

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

Dick Gephardt

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.

Dick Gregory

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

Claude Pepper

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

Colum McCann

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.

Coretta Scott King

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

Dario Fo

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

Amartya Sen

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

Amartya Sen

Democracy is a universal value