Joseph Estrada Quotes

We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper — no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly palliate the overwhelming importance of that point.

Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't.

The Sudanese people decide who rules them.

Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote.

The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to stay on top of the issues of democracy and freedom.

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***

All the more reason we need to stand up for our democracy now. If we're going to solve the crises that are barreling down on us, we need democracy, and our democracy needs to start with an open and inclusive debate. That doesn't mean 20 candidates. There are four candidates who are on the ballot for just about every voter in America.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies-hunger, misery, and despair.

Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people - of its citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

My critics always forget to mention that I was democratically elected, the others were not. Everyone in Uganda can challenge me, everyone can vote, the elections are free. Not many countries have achieved what we did.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

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.