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• Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.

  Robert A. Dahl

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Bit

• Robert Moses wasn’t elected to anything. We’re taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Anything

• I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Political

• I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  Topics in Democracy, God

  Tags in Students

• The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

  C. L. R. James

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Suffrage, Elected

• Liberal democracy – as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today’s left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

  Slavoj Zizek

  Topics in Democracy

• In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution – consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• I think that it’s a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it’s only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.

  Garry Kasparov

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Russian

• I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

  Garry Kasparov

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Russians, Liberal

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

  Garry Kasparov

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in People, Russian

• Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don’t see that it’s crucial for a democracy!

  David Baldacci

  Topics in Democracy

• I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

  Robert Kagan

  Topics in Democracy

• Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

  Ron Paul

  Topics in Country, Democracy

• If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: “Thou shalt not ration justice.”

  Sophocles

  Topics in Democracy

• El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

  Dan Quayle

  Topics in Democracy

• We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Islam, Ideas

• But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Trying, Islam

• Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

  Plato

  Topics in Democracy

• Democracy passes into despotism.

  Plato

  Topics in Democracy

• Corruption is nature’s way of restoring our faith in democracy.

  Peter Ustinov

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Faith, Corruption