#democracy

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#athens #democracy #fly #foreign #greece

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#appalling #british #chancellor #democracy #europe

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#democracy #human #human rights #must #proactive

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise. ↗

— James Buchan

#individualism #islam #liberty #likewise #muslim

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security. ↗

— David Cameron

#afghanistan #clear #create #democracy #frankly

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy #ettiquette #freedom #freedom-of-speech #funny

Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime. ↗

— Robert Casey

#america #any #became #demand #democracy

Television is democracy at its ugliest. ↗

— Paddy Chayefsky

#democracy #television #ugliest

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#ancestors #around #arrogant #classes #dead

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race. ↗

— Frank Field

#longer #politicians #poor #race #separate