Adam Schiff Quotes

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

Washington probably would not like the governments that Arab democracy would produce.

Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.

The Americans' position is clear: we promote democracy.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.

I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

The democracy of the Western countries is the predecessor of Marxism, which would be unthinkable without democracy.

If any country wants to develop, it must practice democracy. If I look around the world, I see that the prosperous countries practice democracy.

No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances .

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

The real strength of the democratic theory in opposition to the fascist or communist is that the fascist frankly states that certain people will tell other people what they shall do to be happy, and those other people have little or nothing to say about it. In theory the communists were to do everything in common, in practice a small group there also tells other people what they shall do to achieve their objectives. So far more nearly than any other form of government, the democratic form has allowed people to shape their own government

Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.

No democracy pretends to be a tyranny. Most tyrannies pretend they are democracies. Democracy remains the definition of political legitimacy.

Democracy is not my main aim. It is just a tool.

The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

South Korea is a vigorous democracy, with strong judicial institutions and a commitment to the rule of law.

We think about democracy, and that's the word that Americans love to use, 'democracy,' and that's how we characterize our system. But if democracy just means going to vote, it's pretty meaningless. Russia has democracy in that sense. Most authoritarian regimes have democracy in that sense.

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.