Frank Carlucci Quotes

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.

It's great that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. I can't wait to see how we do it! What are we gonna do, give them our civics textbooks?

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

As far as domestic democracy, all here present know that democracy means government of the people by the people. While we agree that consultation and participation are essential to every democracy, this is seldom achieved in practice.

I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.

Deep in my heart, I still believe that the democratization of Russia and the democratization of Ukraine will proceed.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.

The United State can no longer allow its Arab allies to ward off democratic reform.

The one good thing the Social Democrats did in Germany was to liquidate the monarchy for ever.

I do not believe that monarchy and aristocracy will continue seven years longer in any of the enlightened countries of Europe

The people should choose whom they please to govern them.

The fate of our democracy lies both in the hannds if the people and of the President

My participation in the presidential elections can truly be a step on the path towards the transformation that our country needs so much.

I believe that the decisions which govern all our lives, the laws we must all obey, and the taxes we must all pay should be decided by people we choose and who we can throw out if we want change.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.

The international community doesn't cast a vote here. Gabonese people do, so I am accountable to them. They are the ones to give me my job or take it away. So this is what is really important to me.

The new era of bottom-up politics has had politically paradoxical consequences in China. While it has made the system of governance more participatory, it has made the central government less authoritarian and, therefore, more bureaucratic and cautious.

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

I think there was something started under my father that I appreciate that it's time to end, and I like the symmetry of me being the person who actually turns the clock back so that we can have a Prime Minister's Office and, indeed, a democracy, that actually respects what voters say and is open and transparent. Because, not only does it matter to gain people's trust, but it matters for quality public policy and governance, and that's why we're committed to open and transparent government.