Democracy Issues Quotes

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Somehow it did not occur to us that, in a developed democracy, regular media advertising could turn out to be a suspicious and harmful activity.

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

Our disease is democracy.

The trouble with modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

In the United States, anybody can be President. That's the problem.

Universal suffrage, furloughs and whiskey have ruined us.

Democracy divides the population into two groups: those of us who complain about government and those of us who are complained about.

We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.

The corporate flacks, hacks, lobbyists, and influence peddlers, the practitioners of modern PR ... have become a kind of occupation army in our democracy.

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.

Democracy is the only form of government which dislikes itself.

The United States is the only major democracy where divided government has become the norm.... For those who are disappointed in the current performance of our national political system, the fault, dear voters, may not be in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are ticket-splitters.

The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people.

Our country is too big for union, too sordid for patriotism, too democratic for liberty.

Popular elections by country rustics and intriguing city-dwellers are one more obstacle to the practice of federation among us; because the former are so ignorant that they cast their votes mechanically, and the latter so ambitious that they convert everything into factions; therefore in Venezuela there has never been a free and just vote

Donald Trump got elected because, in his twisted way, he pointed out the huge troubles in our economy and our democracy.

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

The Republican-controlled House voted to repeal the healthcare bill. If that goes well, they'll see what they can do about this whole 'women voting' thing.

General Wesley Clark commented on Gore endorsing Howard Dean. He said endorsements don't win elections. Hey, in this country, votes don't even win elections.

Our electoral process has created perverse incentives that have warped our democracy and empowered special interests and a vocal minority.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.