Emma Bonino Quotes

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

Democracy is only tolerable because no other system is.

Democracy, once unleashed, is a pretty powerful force.

Democracy is very powerful but very fragile.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Above all, democracy means pluralism.

Democracy in a nation of 300 million people can be noisy and messy and complicated. And when you try to do big things and make big changes, it stirs passions and controversy. That's just how it is.

People mistake majoritarianism for democracy.

If allowed, democracy does actually work.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

I like the noise of democracy.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

Democracy is a process.