Boris Trajkovski Quotes

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

Our democracy works because the parties air and debate their differences in public.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.

Democracy is about aggregating the collective power of citizens to speak in their behalf.

In government, consensus is more important than command; persuasion not only works better than arrogance, it's vital to the democratic process.

We know that literate people are more likely than others to participate in their societies' democratic institutions and that the risk of war drops as more of a country's citizens receive a secondary education.

Unless we citizens speak out, unless we are vigilant, democracy cannot fully function.

The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.

Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.