democracy Quotes

Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos) based on this idea. But my personal opinion is that mathematics may be a hard way to describe ideas like love or democracy.

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.

We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

Empire and liberty.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.