Sun Yat-sen Quotes

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

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Democracy cannot be created out of thin air

Building a democracy was not that difficult because we had a tradition of tribal consultations.

Democracy can shield the Islamic community from autocrats

The Chinese people don't get to vote but they do get to grumble.

I don't want to be a dictator, because it is contrary to my own conscience. I am a democrat, but I don't desire democratic liberalism. On the contrary, I want a guided democracy... I have a conception of my own, which I will put at the disposal of the party leaders if required.

The world wants to know - is the future a democratic one or an autocratic one? And I want to make sure that the United States leads on that, clearly that it's democratic.

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.

Unlike the Congress, our party believes in democracy and takes a collective decision.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

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.

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not easily swayed from its new path when it does.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.