Manmohan Singh Quotes

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran).

The more powerful the state, the more important it submit to widely held norms and consensual methods.

The wisdom and discretion of Congress ... are the restraints on which the people must often rely solely, in all representative governments

Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.

Everybody says, "Well, if it's a democracy, let them have nuclear weapons." America is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons. We're the only ones, this democracy, our great democracy.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world.

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons.

I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.

The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

The greatest achievement of America in the last 70 years has been the prevention of a post Nagasaki nuclear proliferation.

A nuclear weapon is not just a football that you can use at will.

A government as good as the people.

It is the healthiest thing in a democracy when the people who are elected exert power.

America is essentially and radically a democracy, not in name merely but in deed.

American democracy is at its best in its talent for the transfer for power.

Public participation in the process of government is the essence of democracy.

As the power of the populace increases, the wisdom of its statesmen, who concern themselves with external affairs, decreases proportionately.