No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Walter Lippmann
I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.
Ken Livingstone
The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
Mario Vargas Llosa
If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
Gary Locke
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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
Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in... →
Annette Lu