Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Quotes

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

In a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve, and they deserve what they get.

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

Democracy is not elections. Democracy includes elections.

How central shall democracy be in everything else we want to do in the world?

Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.

The British are a people who are generally happy, under normal circumstances, to trust politicians to tell us the truth and to leave them to run the country as we get on with our lives. But we reserve the right, always, to make it clear that they are our servants, not our masters, and, when necessary, we can and will take charge.

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

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.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

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

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged.

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives

A democratic home is the foundation of a democratic state.

Democracy is a process. It is never finished.

Democracy is more than just election day.

The essential thing about democracy is that no one is indispensable.