#democracy

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#basis #democracy #ideals #moral #once

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#cycle #deep #democracy #drop #elections

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#daily #democracy #without

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#democracy #determined #fascism #freedom #fundamentalism

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years. ↗

— John Negroponte

#arrived #back #before #briefing #civilian

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#end #itself #means #socialism

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#finding #insoluble #insoluble problems #problems #solutions

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#building #constitution #democracy #envy #fair

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. ↗

— George Orwell

#any #call #claim #consequently #country

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#i #majesty #reaps #sow #successor