Muammar Qaddafi Quotes

I happen to be one of those people who do not believe in muIti-party democracy.

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

Elected presidents are for countries.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Democracy is a good client.

We're not a democracy.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another.

Democracy is that system of government under which the people, having 35,717,342 native-born whites to choose from, including thousands who are handsome and many who are wise, pick out a Coolidge to be head of the State.

American democracy is a unique form of government which at the same time requires [political] competition and cooperation.

Democracy is a relatively new form of government.

Parliament of Parliaments

Not all countries are ready for it [democracy].

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

With all its faults, the American political system is probably the best political system in the world.

Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't.

Democracy is better than tyranny.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

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

Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.