The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
Tommy Franks

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
Joe Baca

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.
Moshe Dayan

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
Edward Albee

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
Alice Paul

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
David Herbert Lawrence

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
Wynton Marsalis

It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.
Wynton Marsalis

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
Wynton Marsalis

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
Abu Bakar Bashir

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Andre Malraux

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
Abu Bakar Bashir

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
Mikhail Gorbachev

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
Mikhail Gorbachev

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy must learn to defend itself.
Mikhail Gorbachev

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
Christiane Amanpour

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
Claude Pepper

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
Dan Rather