So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights we'll be called a democracy.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable generous tolerant and respectful.

Well I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence in fact make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.

Class struggle: external peace international solidarity peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!