Joshua Wong Quotes

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

I think that's what we don't understand as human beings is this is America. It's a democracy. Once we get whoever we want into the White House, even the person we want to get in the White House doesn't get in the White House. We have every right to not only criticize that person but demand that person does what it is we need to get done. That just happens with us mobilizing and us using our voices to talk to the mayors, the governors and the presidents.

We did not have a revolution in order to have a democracy.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

It's a very painful and difficult process of many mistakes when people receive the right to vote, to elect their leaders when they become the subject for mass media for political manipulation. In particular, in a country like Russia, because we had to go through this period very quickly, it has been, I would say, a crash course in democracy

The Ballot or the Bullet

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

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA. I have seen the strength of democracy. If there were no democracy then someone like me, Modi, a child born in a poor family, how would he sit here? This is the strength of democracy.

Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

There's people on the left who say, the ballot box is a waste of time. Forget them. When Mandela voted for the first time at the age of 76 there was a lot of grown men, including me, wept buckets. That was what it was about. It doesn't solve things, but it gives you the mechanism to hold to account the people with power.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won. In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected. Sometimes the type of person from the old machine, who is everything but an appealing figure, happens to win an election. But democracy applies to everyone, not just the noble and the clever.

But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

Chinese no longer crave so much for food and accommodation, but they do crave democracy. I stand by that. I don't know which model China will follow.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

I think that America has to stand with democracy.

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

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

In an election, there are no kings.

We must care more about bloodless revolutions called elections than about who wins the elections.

The way to address our grievances is to engage in that most revolutionary of activities—voting.

Great political and social changes begin to be possible as soon as men are not afraid to risk their lives.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Polls give candidates a method to find out what voters want.

A government which results from election is more divine than one which results from succession.