Joseph Schumpeter Quotes

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

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.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Democracy is a good client.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

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

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

They which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the most ignorant part of society.

Democracy is that system of government under which the people, having 35,717,342 native-born whites to choose from, including thousands who are handsome and many who are wise, pick out a Coolidge to be head of the State.

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

American democracy is a unique form of government which at the same time requires [political] competition and cooperation.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Democracy is a relatively new form of government.

Politics is about explanations.

We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.