Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.