#democracy

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#constitutional #culture #democracy #human #human rights

In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#ambassador #christian #context #democracy #establishing

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy. ↗

— Imran Khan

#assume #democracy #election #here #know

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics. ↗

— Imran Khan

#democracy #money #only #politics #spent

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#conviction #democracy #each #equal #equality

The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be. ↗

— George Weah

#believe #come #control #country #democracy

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

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#choose #democracy #free #get #man

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries