Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because...

The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people can govern themselves.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

We grew up under dictatorship, wanted democracy and were quickly given responsibility. That sharpens the view for risks, but also for chances.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

[Rumsfeld said he does not] known much about … But he is no friend of democracy. He’s no friend of freedom. He is a person who is very much supportive of the current ayatollahs, who...

You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions

It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people should govern themselves. Some people make the mistake of calling that idea ‘democracy’ and...

The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so...

We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is deemed beyond the sphere of the political, and it is illusory to expect...

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that’s how it works in a democracy.

Sometimes it’s better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

Open Everything’ is everything–it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny.

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

Egypt was the first democracy in the Middle East. Women were unveiled in the 1920s. Egypt is a country of civilization, of culture. It shouldn’t be suffering.

Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one person while aristocracy oppresses another. That is a truth which establishes itself and precludes any...

Islam and democracy can function together.

I think it is dangerous to confuse the idea of democracy with elections. Just because you have elections doesn’t mean you’re a democratic country. They’re a very vitally important part of a democracy. But there...

From leading the world into the age of democracy to spearheading the technological revolution, America has always been at the forefront of greatness.

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East...

karmic reassignment”) manages to fall slightly below the level of those undergraduate talk sessions. The Manichean stand-off leads Mailer, in closing, to speculate on what God might desire politically and to say: ‘In different times,...

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody’s business nobody’s business.

We owe congratulations to the Iraqi people on achieving yet another step on their road to democracy …, … This is a remarkable story.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

I think this project of democracy-building in Iraq has alarmed many authoritarian autocratic regimes in the region, … Many of them are counting on our failure, and they have not been helpful.

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because he is civilised. He finds it because he is experienced; or, what is often much...

It helped spread far and wide the basic values of freedom, democracy, equality, justice and peace, and promoted in a big way the awakening of the people of all countries, especially those of colonial and...

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to...

Is it possible that we ‘hate’ politics because we have forgotten its specific and limited nature, its overwhelming value, and also its innate fragility? Could it be that our expectations are so high that politics...

Peace should be understood in a human way – in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of...

Now I’ve been criticized for advocating that people push their boundaries because sometimes people get caught. Sometimes people get fired. Sometimes people lose their jobs because of pushing the boundaries too far, but it’s an...

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in...

The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who is better than whom, if we mean by ‘better’ such things as more...

Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.

What is at stake is not the provincial council elections, but democracy.

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines,...

Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts.

I realize that what happened in Bosnia could happen anywhere in the world, particularly in places that are diverse and have a history of conflict. It only takes bad leadership for a country to go...

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

I believe in political equality. But there are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so...

The United States and NATO are committed to supporting democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Iraq.

She understands the driving force of our times, the move to democracy, because she has lived it,

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It’s our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.