Marjane Satrapi Quotes

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

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

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

We express our values through politics—through the officials we elect.

I didn’t understand. In a democracy, the people have to be entertained.

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

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.

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

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

The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.

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.

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

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.

You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.

I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.

When push comes to shove, people vote alone.

Politics is a good thing!

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.