Jamie Dimon Quotes

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

Democracy doesn't mean electing a dictator every five years.

I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.

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

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

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

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

All free governments are party governments.

Democracy can be noisy and messy. But it works.

I've made the comment that democracies work slower than dictatorships. That's a true thing.

Democracy is better than tyranny.

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.