Mustafa Akyol Quotes

If democracy is finished, all is lost.

What I find very painful are all these charges that democracy is really shaken in Poland, that we have been switching into some authoritarian regime.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

This country has been without stern, sails and wind, and it needs someone at the helm. We are doomed to live in an authoritarian state until genuine democracy, which should not be confused with anarchy, can be set up.

We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.

No country is free unless it is democratic.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

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

I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.

We have had a long wait for democracy.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.