Graeme Leung Quotes

Democracy is not elections. Democracy includes elections.

Democracy is more than just having free elections. It's having political structures.

Free integral elections should be guaranteed, where values of justice and rule of law also prevail.

Free elections are only one part of democracy. Constraint on the power of government and the rule of law and the institutions of democracy are just as important.

Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until 2016, an open media was seen as a resilient democratic pillar that supported the others.

Democracy is more than just election day.

Elections alone will never be enough to ensure good governance.

I'm not for seizing power, I'm for justice in the country and for democratic elections.

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty.

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

Democracy is a means of achieving a higher level of individual and collective gratification, welfare, peace, stability and prosperity. It is not an end in itself! Practitioners of democracy in the Pacific should therefore be pragmatic in their approach. An idealistic and a purist approach is, I believe, misplaced.

Democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives

Democracies do not begin and end with elections.

Africa must develop a genuine culture of alternation and opposition, without which democracy in any country, including the West, cannot exist.

What is good for democracy is good for America.

In Russia we are not fighting to win elections. We are fighting to have elections.

For democracy to triumph, the natural predatory tendencies of rulers must be restrained by rigorous rules and impartial institutions.

Citizens everywhere should be able to choose their leaders in climates free of fear.

Democracy is about opposition.

You do not turn a country with no democratic tradition into a democracy by just having an election. You must also have democratic institutions like the rule of law.

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.