Meles Zenawi Quotes

In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.

This country has been without stern, sails and wind, and it needs someone at the helm. We are doomed to live in an authoritarian state until genuine democracy, which should not be confused with anarchy, can be set up.

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.

In the light of this monstrous crime we can see that in a free country, which we are and intend to be, unrestrained speech and thought are inherently subversive. Democracy can be made to work only when the bonds of the community are inviolate, and stronger than all parties and factions and interest and sects.

Being a very young democracy, we are going to have a fair amount of grumbling that will emerge from our economy…

Establishing a stable democracy is a two stage process. First you get rid of the old regime, then you build a durable democratic replacement. Because the first stage is dramatic, many people think the game is over when the dictator is gone. But the second stage is more difficult. There are many examples of broad coalitions coming together to oust dictators but relatively few of them stayed together and agreed on what a new regime should look like.

My position on democracy is really clear. Any attempt to overthrow the country is a betrayal to our unity and is treason.

I will do everything I can... to make sure that Poland sticks to a development that fosters the rule of law, democracy.

The PRI can afford to push democratization; it can afford to be generous because it has a very good chance of winning in clean elections.

What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.

Is it possible to tolerate the state order being undermined from morning to night because doing so is supposedly a democratic obligation.

In the United States, because we are a nation of laws, you can lose an election and keep your life. In the United States, you can lose an election where you can disagree with our leaders or our government, and you won't lose your business; you won't lose your family, and you won't lose your freedom.

There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.

One of the cornerstones of our democracy is the peaceful transition of power.

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system, which is one of the pillars of maintaining a democratic system.

I probably will not live to see Turkey become an exemplary democracy, but I pray that the downward authoritarian drift can be stopped before it is too late.

Even if, at the helm of the country there are people who would like to replace me and suppress me and oppress me at the level of blood-sucking vampires, then I do not want to remove them with anti-democratic means. This is my attitude toward any and even the idea of the consideration of a military coup.

A lot of us were worried that the secular fabric of the country was under threat and it was time that citizens begin to speak out. Hence we called ourselves Citizen Speak India.

My message to the Turkish people is never to view any military intervention positively because through military intervention, democracy cannot be achieved.

If we want to change a law, we can do that in Parliament. That is a democratic right that has often been taken from the E.U.

Our democracy has survived for so many years in India. We should at least give credit to the Congress for that.