In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.
Aleksandr Lebed
As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under... →
I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.
Alexander Lebedev
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
Fran Lebowitz
On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a... →
Ang Lee
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Walter Legge
If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get... →
Jim Lehrer
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
Vladimir Lenin
Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.
Michael Leunig
The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the... →
Jacob Lew