Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. - Robert Bork So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy. - Carol Moseley Braun There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. - Fidel Castro

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed. - John Ashcroft American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. - Thomas Babington Macaulay When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven. - Herbert Croly Soft citizens of the American democracy learned to kick a man below the belt and make the bastard scream. - Kurt Vonnegut Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs. - Jennifer M Granholm It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and Ame...

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. - John Acton The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. - Taslima Nasrin 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. - Shimon Peres Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts? - Muqtada Al Sadr