Free Elections Quotes

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Give me a bad democracy, a sick democracy, but democracy!

Hong Kong is different to mainland China. We protect our freedoms. We ask for free elections to elect the leader of our city.

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

We will continue our protest with our course on free elections.

We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our Liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good.

I'm not for seizing power, I'm for justice in the country and for democratic elections.

Those who didn't vote for me don't need to worry - they won't be persecuted.

The values that we share - freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, freedom for civil society, free and fair elections, all the innovation that's been created through a market-based economy - those things are ultimately going to be the path for us to continue into a better future. I hope that, despite some of the challenges we have, that people appreciate that.

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

In Russia we are not fighting to win elections. We are fighting to have elections.

Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.

If a people bent on violence and terrorism have free elections, they will elect leaders bent on violence and terrorism.

The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

The essential democracy of our Nation and the safety of our people depend not upon the absence of power, but upon lodging it with those whom the people can change or continue at stated intervals through an honest and free system of elections

Qatar-based 'Al-Jazeera,' the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having 'emphasized civilian casualties' during the destruction of Falluja. The problem of independent media was later resolved when the channel was kicked out of Iraq in preparation for free elections.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one. One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms. I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

Election security is the first step to having free, fair, and open elections.

My critics always forget to mention that I was democratically elected, the others were not. Everyone in Uganda can challenge me, everyone can vote, the elections are free. Not many countries have achieved what we did.

There must not be a party monopoly on power.

Democracy is more than just having free elections. It's having political structures.