#democracy

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#democracy #end #era #example #failed

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it. ↗

— Robert Greenwald

#charge #crisis #democracy #depends #each

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#democracy #experiment #freedom #human #human freedom

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#china #continue #democracy #efforts #human

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it. ↗

— Horatio Seymour

#constitution #democracy #merit #our #promotes

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. ↗

— Steve King

#constitutional #constitutional republic #crafted #democracy #failures

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people. ↗

— Olof Palme

#group #people #reserved #rights #select

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#politics #society #courage

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy. ↗

— James E. Rogers

#democracy #education #freedom #fulfilled #gifts

We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq. ↗

— Richard Shelby

#bring #cannot #cut #democracy #ensure