A Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

P. J. O'Rourke

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P. J. O'Rourke
American - Comedian
Born: November 14, 1947

The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

Morrie Brickman

The average citizen saw that the big PACs with the billionaires and the multimillionaires get what they want in Washington, but the average citizen is left behind.

Virgil Goode

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.

Leon Wieseltier

From her concession speech: Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it...You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States. And that is truly remarkable.

Hillary Clinton

To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue teaches.

H. L. Mencken

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

Mahatma Gandhi

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

Paul van Dyk

I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.

Tana French

We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.

Cecily McMillan

The beauty of America is that the average person always thinks she is above average.

Sam Levenson

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

Brooks Robinson

I'm an average citizen and always have been.

Sandy Adams

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Mark Twain

The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.