A Quote by Ted Lieu

Democracy is messy.

Ted Lieu

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Ted Lieu
American - Politician
Born: March 29, 1969

Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.

Rich Galen

All government is a mess. Democracy is always messy. It's meant to be messy because smooth, thoughtful, precise, effective government leads to dictatorship. Don't get me wrong, dictatorship is fine - as long as I'm the dictator. But if you're not the dictator, not so good.

Michael Capuano

You've gotta understand what Putin's strategy is. He really doesn't like democracy. He thinks it's an inconvenient, messy process. And he doesn't like us, and he wants to destabilize our country; sow doubt about our democracy.

Stephen Colbert

Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Genuine democracy is frequently messy, not stage-managed.

Owen Jones

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

Mark McKinnon

Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what makes them fun. Once we get older we’re not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you’re eating a Valomilk, it’s okay to be messy again.

Steve Almond

Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

There is no doubt our democracy can be very messy and America does remain a sharply divided country.

Paul Ryan

When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!

Bob Goff

People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.

Timothy Keller

I love having messy hair. I put in a lot of effort to have it look as messy as possible.

Kristin Kreuk

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

Elisabeth Elliot

I think the important thing is to realize that the establishment of a democracy is sometimes a messy thing and it takes time. Yeah, we've been at it 240 years.

Mike Huckabee

We think about democracy, and that's the word that Americans love to use, 'democracy,' and that's how we characterize our system. But if democracy just means going to vote, it's pretty meaningless. Russia has democracy in that sense. Most authoritarian regimes have democracy in that sense.

Timothy D. Snyder

Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

Shirin Ebadi

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