Nicholas Soames Quotes

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.

The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.

A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

The fate of our democracy lies both in the hannds if the people and of the President

The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.

I'm angry that George Bush got to be in the White House, and I'm angry that [Al] Gore wasn't able to be a better candidate after eight years of a great economy and being an incumbent.

In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put it mildly. Either there's democracy, or there isn't.

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.

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.

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

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

As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.

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.

Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.