- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy Quotes
On civic duty, accountability, and defending democratic ideals.
These quotes treat democracy as something requiring active maintenance, from elections as the basic tool for keeping leaders answerable to broader concern about democratic accountability eroding over time. Explore Democratic quotes for related ideas.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, 'We don't want this in our community; we don't want this in our backyard,' and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
- Faces
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- Nov 07, 2020
American democracy has two faces.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't know yet how to build a society which is environmentally sustainable, which is shareable with everybody on the planet, which promotes stability and democracy and human rights, and which is achievable in the time-frame necessary to make it through the challenges we face.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor country, India's democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.
- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that the U.S., a very wealthy nation, permits and even encourages a level of poverty that other wealthy nations would not even consider.
- Fostering
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020