Top 1200 Democratic Process Quotes & Sayings

I don't think that military-style information operations is conducive for any democratic process.

You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.

The democratic process on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process, but should be applied to the industrial operation as well.

This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to express itself peacefully through discussion, through reason and through the voting process.

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their preferences. When you hear someone say that he doesn't trust the market, and wants to replace it with government edicts, he's really calling for a switch from a democratic process to a totalitarian one.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.

I think Hillary [Clinton] has [woken up to the plight of the middle class] and is working toward it in a democratic process.

There is a democratic process in the party, and that can be operated at any time. But am I going to resign? No. Of course not. No. No. I will carry on.

The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.

I have repeatedly called for respecting institutions and the democratic process. Once the process is completed, we should always respect the outcome.

The fairest and most democratic process in terms of Supreme Court nominees is let the American people have a voice.

We believe the way social change occurs in the United States, over the last 200 years, is the democratic process.

The proper way to make policy decisions under our Constitution in America is for the people to do so through the democratic process.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

I come from people who dreamed of a free democratic system. I believe so strongly in the process and equal access.

We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.

When it comes to free speech and participation in the democratic process, our laws should reflect the goal of making it easier for more citizens to engage.

One of the things that happens that's challenging within the democratic process is that people say, 'Look at this failure, so we should totally change this whole thing.' And then you add in tons of bureaucratic process and checks and balances, and all of a sudden, it doesn't work that well.

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.

(Terrorists) are planning to disrupt our democratic process. It's scary I know, but we're not going to let al Qaeda tell us what to do. In fact, our government has decided that if al Qaeda attempts to disrupt our democratic process, we are going to respond by disrupting it first.

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an antithetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation.

A louder government with less journalism does not enrich our democratic process.

Radical groups can become legitimate political players in the democratic process if they accept core democratic principles and abandon the use of force as a political tool. Or they can maintain armed terrorist militias in order to threaten their neighbors and intimidate their people. The international community should not allow them to do both.

The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.

While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance.

Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which are two essentially different revolutionary processes, and the second process can be carried through only after the first has been completed. The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society.

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

Free media is very essential for the democratic process and... development.

No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.

What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic; it is not enough that he try to pose as democratic-he must be democratic, otherwise the veneer, the sheen, would wear off, for you can't fool a body of intelligent American workingmen for very long. He must ring true.

The ability for every legal, registered voter to participate in our democratic process should not be a partisan issue.

What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

I would have a democratic process for people to get together and talk about the way they want the government to conduct business with China.

I am happy to note that the BJP as an organization is looking to creatively harness Power of Social Media. We have to ensure our Youth stays engaged in our Democratic process. We have to make our Democratic process accessible to them. Social media is an important tool for this.

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

Democratic Party are totalitarian, authoritarians who - when you get right down to it - are showing everybody they have no respect for the democratic process, and they want no part of it. They are trying to undermine it. This isn't insecurity. This is dangerous!

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

I believe Tunisia and Egypt should look to Turkey and see what not to do. Turkey seems to be a secular and democratic country but it is only a show. We are losing the effectiveness of democratic institutions like parliament and judiciary. They now are turning into tools for the benefit of a president-ordering system. A democratic government is possible only on a comprehensive democratic base surrounded by the participatory action of ordinary people.

Sometimes you hear that many politicians vote for a bill in various forms before they vote against it, or vice versa. The conflict, negotiation, and eventual compromise involved in this process form the essence of the democratic process.

There is a democratic deficit. In Latin America in particular there is real concern that democratic governments are not delivering and that is leading to experimenting with different models that are much less democratic. But even in Western Europe the deficit is a problem.

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it.

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

One person, one vote sounds so reasonable and - dare I say it - democratic. But the voting process in America is anything but fair and balanced.

I think in the world we live in where television is the principal source of information for most people, it really affects the balance of the democratic process. The fairness of the democratic process.

If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

As governor, I'll focus on these concrete steps to make it easier to vote and include every community in our democratic process.

In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.

If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.