Television is democracy at its ugliest.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power it is called a democracy.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights we'll be called a democracy.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable generous tolerant and respectful.

Well I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence in fact make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.

Class struggle: external peace international solidarity peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

I'm not overly alarmist about it but I do think there are some worrying signs like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free they claim to be absolutely equal.

Democracy is when the indigent and not the men of property are the rulers.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it that the Union was preserved.

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq it will mean learning from our mistakes not denying them and not ignoring them.

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy it's very important that I participate in that.

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

For centuries America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.