When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.
Joe Wilson

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.
Rosie O'Donnell

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.
Rosie O'Donnell

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
Chinua Achebe

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
John Le Carre

Jeans represent democracy in fashion.
Giorgio Armani

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis

To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
George Soros

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.
George Soros

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
George Soros

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
Wendell Willkie

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
Wendell Willkie

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Malcolm Forbes