Bill Clinton Quotes

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

Democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives

If you can exchange information freely, isn’t that almost a definition of democracy.

Democracy is not elections. Democracy includes elections.

The great postulate of our democracy is confidence in the common sense of the people and in their maturity of judgment, even on great issues—once they know the facts.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.

The development of democracy is very much a matter of education and of progressing step by step.

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

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

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.

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

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

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

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

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

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.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

A democratic home is the foundation of a democratic state.

Democracy Is What You Make It!

A democratic crisis can only be settled by more democracy.