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It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.