Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

In parliamentary and presidential democracies, the chief executive has been elevated from first among equals to the status of a monarch.

They are to choose annually from among themselves, a certain Number of Men, according to their divisions, which constitute the General Assembly with the Governour and his Council, and have the sole power of Making Laws, and Laying Taxes for the common good when need shall require

In republics the executive must be strongest because everything conspires against it, while in monarchies the legislature must be strongest, because everything conspires in favour of the monarch

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

Say, oh well, the Republicans don't like this therefor I shouldn't do it. What kind of a government would that be. We're not a parliamentary system.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Democracy is always frustrating.

America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

I've always lived in a democratic society.

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.