Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an... →
Jim Hightower
Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.
Mo Ibrahim
Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.
If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real... →
Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the... →
I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
Carl Icahn
You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper... →
Gwen Ifill
For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy... →
Michael Ignatieff
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as... →
Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought... →
Daisaku Ikeda