You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women you can't progress.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things but we're being fooled because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane trivial disappointing dirty aspect.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics they don't understand the democratic process they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

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.

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

If liberty and equality as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art poems schools theology displacing all that exists or that has been produced anywhere in the past under opposite influences.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

However democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.