Paul Wolfowitz Quotes

Democracy is a good client.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Democracy is politics.

There is no better form of government than democracy.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Democracy doesn't mean electing a dictator every five years.

My political ideal is democracy.

Democracy is very powerful but very fragile.

Democracy, in a word, is meant to be an aristocracy which has broadened into a universal aristocracy.

Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

Democracies take time.

I have always believed that genuine democracy is fairness.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

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

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.