Political System Quotes

Every nation has the government it deserves. Toute nation a le government qu'elle merite.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently and for the same reason.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.

In a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve, and they deserve what they get.

I have a negative approach to democracy. I think it should be primarily a mechanism by which people can remove a bad leader.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Iran is not ready for Western-style democracy.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

A democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

No penal or political system which multiplies the population of the prisons at the rate of 10 per cent every year will solve a problem which is growing to be more and more of a danger to the social and moral life of the nation.

Democracy is ... a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses.

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'

China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in the economy will force China to open up its political system over time and to move toward a more democratic society. So taken as a whole, the one real failure in this whole business has been Russia.

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

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

The people are always worsted in an election.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Democracy is a fickle employer.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.