We need to encourage people to speak up, to speak out, because the more people who participate in our democracy, the more our democracy grows.

Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.

I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there's no reason to argue about it.

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.

Japan and Australia share the universal values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights.

It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.

I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.

There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.

If we don't have access to facts, we can't trust each other. Without trust, there's no law. Without law, there's no democracy.

In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

Believing in and practising the principles of the rule of law is, with our liberty and democracy, among the most powerful weapons we have. It is less effective if we blur its clarity and we should do this as sparingly as possible.

The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

American democracy depends on the public's ability to remain accurately informed on our state of affairs.