If we can’t sit at the table of democracy, then we’ll knock the fucking legs off. But before we tear it completely down, they will move to build a better one, rather than see this one destroyed.
The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.
I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
Let the filibuster be no more. Let the people decide.
Any country is either becoming more democratic or less democratic. I think the United States hasn't tended to its journey toward democracy in a long time.
Mexico has experimented with political change since the late 1980s.
Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.
There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming.
Bashar al-Assad needs to be replaced, but he can't be replaced with another Bashar al-Assad.
People movements have heralded a new era of Taiwan politics.
I'm optimistic Hong Kong will achieve universal suffrage - no matter the attitude of Beijing.
As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.
The People's Party, I am working for the people and we want to put the power back in people.
Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.
Right to Information is a small concrete step in making our polity more democratic.
Needed reform of the nominating procedures has been thwarted by the individual vested interests of the DNC members in maintaining the maze of primaries and caucuses.
Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!
The United State can no longer allow its Arab allies to ward off democratic reform.
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
I am not big on the idea that a rapid injection of democracy will reform radical Moslems.
It would be a mistake to view Camacho as the beacon of democracy in Mexico. He has played by the PRI's rules for more than 15 years. As mayor of Mexico City, he was recognized as a political broker, not as an apostle of substantive political reform.
