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Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Let us continue to strive together for a more inclusive, democratic, and peaceful future for us all.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

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

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

In whose delusional mind is democracy made 'better' by allowing wealthy people to control more of it?

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

My joke about Aaron Sorkin is that The West Wing was a great show about democracy, run by Kim Jong-Il!

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.

I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

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