Hamid Karzai Quotes

In democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste, but its effect,...

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

In a democracy, not everyone gets what they want.

Above all, democracy means pluralism.

If our democracy is flourish, it must have criticism; if our democracy is to function, it must have dissent.

Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.

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

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

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

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

My political ideal is democracy.

Democracy affords debate, discussion and dissent.

Opinion and protest are the life breath of democracy—even when it blows heavy.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Polls give candidates a method to find out what voters want.

Democracy is messy.

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.

Democracy in a nation of 300 million people can be noisy and messy and complicated. And when you try to do big things and make big changes, it stirs passions and controversy. That's just how it is.

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

I like the noise of democracy.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.