If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything..

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?.

If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you..

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetiti….

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem..

We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we were trying to do, is again, a ….

Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition..

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition..

The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is..

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us..

I actually did a quick survey of how caste plays out in contemporary India. The idea that democracy and development have in some ways eroded caste tu….

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.

The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintai….

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows..

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of de….

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat..

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it..

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn..

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ….

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it..

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it..