My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
Jalal Talabani
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
Serj Tankian
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy... →
Don Tapscott
Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains... →
Shashi Tharoor
Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not... →
I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.
Taki Theodoracopulos
We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our... →
Helen Thomas
You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years... →
Mark Thomas