Elections And Democracy Quotes

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around. — Randall Robinson

Campaigns and elections are the process in which democracy separates the willing from the able, and goes with the willing. — Jon Stewart

The ballot is stronger than the bullet. — Abraham Lincoln

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. — Noam Chomsky

This is an election of hope. It is bringing a new trust. These elections will give new strength to the nation. — Narendra Modi

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used. — Paul Collier

We don't vote for people because they are the exact embodiment of our values, but because they are likely to be the most responsive to them. — Charles M. Blow

I am and will remain the president of all Cameroonians without exception, and the great winner in these elections is democracy — Paul Biya

The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic. — David T. Dellinger

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996. — Todd Akin

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it. — Narendra Modi

If elections could change anything, they would have already made them forbidden. — Unknown

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. — Che Guevara

2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA. — Narendra Modi

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections. — George Montgomery

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. — Sarah Palin

Our nation is rich and our people can be rich. 2014 elections is a fight against poverty. — Narendra Modi

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. — Theodore Roosevelt

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. — Matt Taibbi

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. — Gore Vidal

The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible. — Ahmed Chalabi

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. — Herbert Marcuse

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

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. — H.L. Mencken

Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. — Robert Kennedy

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best — Otto Von Bismarck

Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections.. — Louis De Bernieres

While 1857 was about 'Swaraj ki ladai', the 2014 elections would be about 'Surajya ki ladai'. — Narendra Modi