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“I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.”

Thinking Leader Democracy Groups Advantage Dependent

Author:Azim Premji

“A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.”

Government Passion Leader Democracy Ambition Vices Multitudes

Book:Works of Fisher Ames

Source: Works of Fisher Ames

“Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse.”

Sometimes Winning Leader Democracy Election Neighbor Dictator Reverse Governance Good Governance Elected Leaders

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.”

Leader Virtue Democracy Worst Faults Constituents Stranger In A Strange Land

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.”

“Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.”

People Wells Self Government School Political Leader Democracy Training Locals Providing Self-government Future Leaders

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.”

Way War Country States United Leader United States Democracy Economic Citizens Benefits Flags Elites Bleak Waging War

Author:Samantha Power

“Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.”

Party Leader Democracy Democratic Communism American Politics Democratic Party

Author:Jack Kemp

“It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how tough things are going to be, just what's going to have to be done - and, maybe, ran all the risks on the side of honesty, rather than spinning stories and trying to win the headlines every day.”

People Trying Done Stories Winning Sides Leader Democracy Wonderful Risk Honesty Tough Ran Old People Spinning Headlines Tough Things

Author:Chris Patten

“Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged.”

People Art Leader Democracy Ideals Crisis Institutions Democratic Complaining Gaps Dissatisfaction Democracies Have Democratic Society Bearable

Author:Ivan Krastev

“Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.”

People Long Enough Government Choices Interest Results Leader Class Democracy Tests Tyranny Voting Rulers Intervals Castes Clique

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.”

“The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia.”

Should Said Happens Nations Leader Democracy Size Russia Portraits Stamps Exceed Postage Postage Stamps

Author:Vladimir Sorokin

“There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.”

Political Leader Democracy Political Leaders

Author:Mark Shields

“In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.”

People Leader Democracy Deserve

Author:Joseph de Maistre

“The question of whether we were misled into the war in Iraq isn't a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democratic question, it's an American one. Protecting the democracy that we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our responsibility and our trust. Demanding accountability from our leaders is our job as citizens. It's the American way. So may the truth win out.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.”

Years Reality Challenges Leader Democracy Generations Achievement Years Ago Foundation Everyday Better Life Defining Unimaginable

Author:Nelson Mandela

“You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.”

Ifs Want Two Ability Party Leader Democracy Taken Citizens Offers Illusion Significant Concealed Citizenry

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“It is my view that it is a big embarrassment for Africa . It is hypocritical for African leaders to talk about democracy and human rights and to be silent when these things are happening in Zimbabwe .”

Humans Bigs Views Leader Democracy Rights Happenings Silent Human Rights Embarrassment Hypocritical Zimbabwe Democracy And Human Rights

Author:Raila Odinga

“The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.”

Firsts Believe Leader Democracy Distrust Publicity

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.