Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

Democracy Is What You Make It!

Democracy is a process that doesn't march in lock step.

You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.

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.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

My message is that Democracy is not an alien invention. It is a way of solving problems in our society.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

Let The People Rule

We are an inclusive rather than an exclusive party …. The authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.

Where the government is a government of the people, it is essential that the history be a history of the people. The history of a democracy ought not to be an Iliad.

Political competition is the heartbeat of democracy.

It is not suffrage that gives life to democracy; it is our democratic society that gives life to suffrage.

The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

We need to restore our democracy to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

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.

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.