Bill Clinton Quotes

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

Democracy is far more complex than simply choosing the people who govern you.

Democracy, in a word, is meant to be an aristocracy which has broadened into a universal aristocracy.

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

Democracy is a process.

Democracy doesn't mean electing a dictator every five years.

In a democracy, power implies responsibility.

Democracy can be noisy and messy. But it works.

Liberal democracies have their own means of holding leaders accountable. They are called elections.

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.

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

Democracy abhors a vacuum.

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.

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

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

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

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

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

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

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

Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.