#demo

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#decision making #democracy #first #first thing #go

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. ↗

— Clement Attlee

#discussion #effective #government #means #only

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#american #american history #been #biggest #congress

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. ↗

— Clive Barnes

#culture #democratic #entirely #everybody #first

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields. ↗

— Joe Barton

#american #american flag #approach #battlefields #behind

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now? ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#centuries #democracy #did #during #ideas

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#either #feet #go #happening #lenin

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. ↗

— William Bennett

#democracy #export #human #human rights #noblest

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#democracy #i #market #pressures #say

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#bring #convinced #country #democracy #i