Democracy

we will never surrender to the terrorists who despise democracy and distort religion. Never.

- Jalal Talabani Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

- Mohandas Gandhi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.

- Barbara Lee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

- Robert Welch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

- Natan Sharansky Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

- Lee H. Hamilton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Kate Adie Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

An independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our democracy. It is too vital to be used as a means of placating a political party's base.

- Nan Aron Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I've always been a petition-signer. I always believe in freedom of expression and absolute democracy.

- Henry Flores Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

And I'm glad that Kosovo is well on the way now to being a functioning democracy where different ethnic groups can live in peace.

- Lord Robertson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

- Phillip E. Johnson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

- Gijs de Vries Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

- Gijs de Vries Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Barbara Boxer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.

- Ali A. Saleh Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Whatever the results of the referendum are ... it is a civilized step that aims to put Iraq on the path of true democracy.

- Farid Ayar Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

- D.H. Lawrence Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Department of Homeland Security raises the alert status for financial centers in New York, New Jersey, and Washington to orange. The evidence supporting the warning, reconnaissance data left in a home in Iraq, later proves to be roughly four years old and largely out of date. Number 10. Last Thursday, at 10 a.m. Eastern time, the President addresses the National Endowment for Democracy, once again emphasizing the importance of the war on terror, and insisting his government has broken up at least 10 terrorist plots since 911. At 3 p.m. Eastern time, five hours after the President's speech has begun, the Associated Press reports that Karl Rove will testify again to the CIA leak grand jury and that special prosecutor Fitzgerald has told Rove he cannot guarantee that he will not be indicted.

- Keith Olbermann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The accusation is unfair. All our aid programs are for local developments. We didn't use money to interfere in the local election. As a democracy, we will not do such a thing.

- Michel Lu Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is a historic moment in the history of Iraq. It is a hopeful moment for the entire region. Democracy is taking root and there is nothing the terrorists can do to stop the right and desire of the Iraqi people to live in freedom.

- Scott McClellan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

- Paul Wellstone Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

- Robert Welch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

- Natan Sharansky Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy.

- Jim Costa Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

- Zbigniew Brzezinski Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes