2,003 Quotes About Democracy

We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.

But what I have to say to people who might come forward is that one of the great things about our democracy is freedom of the press.

What you're seeing is a loss of confidence in institutions and their legitimacy because they are not seen as delivering. It's hardly a surprise that it's producing a degree of paralysis. Politics becomes very reactive and it's hard to deal with the bigger issues.

If Cosmo is Number 1 in China, can democracy be far behind?

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.