Democratic Process Quotes

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

Politics, Business, Democracy

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Idea, High, Office

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.
Charles Rangel

Integrity, Democracy, Country

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
Robert Mugabe

Peace, Before, Wish

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Game, Mean, Before

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
King Abdullah II

Happy, Wrong, Everybody

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
King Abdullah II

Success, Democracy, Worry

I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.
Sarah Palin

Best, Free, Fair

Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate.
Andrew Cuomo

Through, Whether, Process

Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.
Eliot Spitzer

Envy, May, Country

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
Jack Kemp

Through, Enough, Problem

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'
Joshua Foer

Words, Through, Process

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.
Brandon Boyd

Work, End, Thought

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.
Debbie Stabenow

Time, Democracy, Vote

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.
James Hansen

Money, Person, Vote

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.
Jeff Miller

Great, Process, Democratic

Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process.
Julian Castro

Time, Real, Older

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.
Jay Inslee

Corruption, Tell, Getting

We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.
Ted Cruz

Work, Today, Place

What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
Jack Kingston

Success, Great, Perfect

We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.
Ali A. Saleh

Process, Economic, Democratic

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
John Lewis

Hard, Impossible, Vote

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.
Greta Van Susteren

Makes, Process, Left

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.
Jean Claude Duvalier

Process, Democratic, Initiated

The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.
Geoff Hoon

Government, Job, Trying

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries.
John Negroponte

Time, War, Working

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.
Gina McCarthy

Love, Start, Off

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