Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.
Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.
Trump himself stands to benefit dramatically from the tax cuts. One of the things they're cutting is the alternative minimum tax. Last time we have tax returns for him was in 2005, where he paid about $31 million because of the alternative minimum tax. He won't have to pay that, if this tax bill goes through. So, not only is he reordering our constitutional democracy, he is personally enriching himself - which is not new, because, of course, he's done it ever since he swore an oath to become president of the United States.
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.
Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.
The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote, and so on I would argue that if what is at stake is securing life as we know it, then there can be no bigger struggle that we face.
May you have the income of a Republican and the sex life of a Democrat!
Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.
The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.
. . . governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.
I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.
I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.
For German Social Democracy, Europe is vital to the national interest.
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.