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What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.
— Abraham Lincoln
Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.
— Cindy Sheehan
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
— H.L. Mencken
What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.
— Mary Renault
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
— Alan Coren
Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.
— Glenn Greenwald
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
— Carter G. Woodson
Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation
— Fareed Zakaria
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
— Stokely Carmichael
What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.
— Robert Breault
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
— Andrew Vachss
And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.
— Mike Lowry
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
— Stanley Fish
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.
— Charles Wheelan
Oh, what a democracy MY PRIME MINISTER IS CORRUPT
— Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.
— Ben Ehrenreich
Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.
— Ronald Reagan
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.
— Andrew Napolitano
Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.
— Jeff Cooper
What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.
— Alberto Fujimori
To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?
— Andy Zaltzman
It's easier for Europeans to give money to a movie that says a blow job is what brought down American democracy.
— Julie Delpy
Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.
— Robert A. Dahl
Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
— James Russell Lowell
What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.
— Stjepan Hauser
The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.
— Ken Livingstone
People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights.
— Condoleezza Rice
The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.
— John McCain
Democracy is like having two wolves and a lamb decide what is for dinner.
— Benjamin Franklin
What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.
— Rashid Al-Ghannushi
A democracy is a system in which you are free to do whatever you like as long as you do what we tell you.
— Noam Chomsky
Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.
— Frances Moore Lappe
This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.
— Condoleezza Rice
I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?
— H.L. Mencken
This is what we mean by democracy: that everyone has a voice, that no one gets away with things just because of their wealth, power, race, or gender.
— Rebecca Solnit
Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence - call it what you will - is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.
— Matthew Flinders
the struggle for an abolitionist democracy is aspiring to create the institutions that will truly allow for a democratic society. What
— Angela Y. Davis
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
— Benjamin Franklin
What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
What is a political party but a conspiracy?
— Gore Vidal
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
— Irving Babbitt
Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.
— Paul Weyrich
Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?
— Ferdinand Marcos
What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less.
— Fareed Zakaria