Roger Wicker Quotes

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.

Nigeria shed the last of a succession of brutal military dictatorships in 1997 and adopted a democratic form of government only in 1999. Our elections of 2003, 2007, and 2011 were complicated and fraught with tension, but each one has shown remarkable progress.

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy.

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

There are few things we will do in America as important as pulling the lever for President of the United States of America.

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

We can not have free government without elections. And if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have conquered or ruined us.

Democracy is a revolutionary process.

It is doubtful that President Mubarak or the Saudi Royal family will allow elections that might sweep them from office.

Establishing a stable democracy is a two stage process. First you get rid of the old regime, then you build a durable democratic replacement. Because the first stage is dramatic, many people think the game is over when the dictator is gone. But the second stage is more difficult. There are many examples of broad coalitions coming together to oust dictators but relatively few of them stayed together and agreed on what a new regime should look like.

Well, first of all, I think that Russia has to have free democratic elections, that means everyone who wants to take part in it should be admitted.

I'm not for seizing power, I'm for justice in the country and for democratic elections.

I would like to say to my friends in Poland: Let's make good choices, vote for democracy.

Elections matter and voting counts.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people.