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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

What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents. — Gwynne Dyer

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. — H.L. Mencken

What good is democracy if you can't get what you want? — Drew Carey

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

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it. — Fred Reed

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. — Robert Breault

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. — Ambrose Bierce

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change. — Andrew Vachss

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. — Democritus

Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics; what is scarce is accurate beliefs. — Bryan Caplan

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

Deficit reduction is the demand of the financial institutions and the superrich, and in a rapidly declining democracy, that's what counts. — Noam Chomsky

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

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is. — E.B. White

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

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors. — Lewis H. Lapham

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

For the first time you will have some real democracy in the world. What exists now as democracy is not democracy - it is mobocracy. — Osho

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

Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides. — Clive James

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

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. — William Blum

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

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky

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

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

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both. — Dick Gephardt

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism. — Mustafa Akyol

What we need in politics today is not more democracy but less. — Fareed Zakaria