To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather than worse. I write the film and I direct the film, I decide who's going to be in it, I decide on the editing, I put in the music from my own record collection.
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.
In America, we do not have a democracy. It's not what we have. We have a representative republic and therefore the rules and regulations that have been written to maintain it are not truly democratic - not purely democratic - in origin. They are about protecting and defending the establishment of this republic.
America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.
The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.
All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.
The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.
We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.
The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.
Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.
Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.
Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified. And when such behavior emanates from the top of our government, it is something else. It is dangerous to a democracy.
There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.
The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
Democracy and violence can ill go together.
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.