Fareed Zakaria Quotes

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

Democracy is good for everybody.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

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

The Congress is not a court of law but it is a court of public opinion.

In England there has always been more liberty, but worse organization, while in other countries there is better organization, but less liberty.

We can conceive of various kinds of democracy.

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

The ballot box and the voters and how they pay attention and the decisions they make are really what should define term limits.

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

Democracy is always frustrating.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

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

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

That is the nature of democracy. It is hard. It is not always inspiring.

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

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

Democracy is a good client.

Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.