Anne Applebaum Quotes

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

Democracy is not about one party dominating.

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

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

All free governments are party governments.

In most countries, a lopsided election represents a mandate that the winning party could then use to implement their agenda, but the U.S. political system seems to have been made to prevent such an occurrence.

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

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.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

The Senate of the United States has been both extravagantly praised and unreasonably disparaged, according to the predisposition and temper of its various critics…. The truth is, in this case as in so many others, something quite commonplace and practical. The Senate is just what the mode of its election and the conditions of public life in this country make it.

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

She had got to the bottom of this business of democratic government and found out that it was nothing more than government of any other kind.

The United States is dangerously close to becoming a democracy instead of a republic.

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

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

That a majority of people can vote against a government, and yet that government still remains in power does not raise confidence in our democracy.

The problem is that every single person here was elected under this system. It is not typical of human nature to change what works.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy a few people have their way; in a democracy no one has his way.