I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works..

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information a….

We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly in the name of….

Ten years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely through the streets of Bogota thes….

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, d….

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say she's m….

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan..

And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'l….

... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market with the crimes ….

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes..

We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy..

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized i….

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy..

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim..

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership..

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan..

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear..

My joke about Aaron Sorkin is that The West Wing was a great show about democracy, run by Kim Jong-Il!.

As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of the sovereignty of t….

Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along ….

This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. Tha….