The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

I think the success of democracy is not really police security it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy in a free society it's not good to limit the number of voices.

America must be the teacher of democracy not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society they are the rights of all the people.

Well you know too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

Informed by our sad experience of history we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market it is a guarantee of democracy freedom justice and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

For about ten years now the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.