Naveen Patnaik Quotes

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

Democracy is not elections. Democracy includes elections.

Democracy is more than just election day.

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

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

Our democracy only works when the official opposition does its job of opposing the government of the day and offers a clear alternative vision for our country, including giving a voice to the voiceless.

Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.

Every voter has a right to criticise a government and comment on its functioning.

A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.

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

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.

I want people to learn what democracy means.

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.