Andrea Mitchell Quotes

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

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

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

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

Authoritarian regimes in countries with weak, uninformed, or repressed civil societies will be less susceptible to transparency’s pressures.

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

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

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

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

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

We are talking about an issue with fundamental significance to how democracies work. One can safely say it is now an even bigger issue.

Democracy is political corruption which must be effectively done away with.

Elections alone will never be enough to ensure good governance.

What is good for democracy is good for America.

Democracy is far more than merely participating in free and fair elections for a new government. It is about playing by a set of rules, respecting those rules and accepting the result even when it may not be what one had hoped for.

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.

We want to strengthen democracy.

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

A functioning democracy cannot stand when its people do not trust their leaders to uphold the law.

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.

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.