Quotes On British Democracy

#1. I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

Clare Short

#2. It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed.

Steve Merrick

#3. There was a happy irony in the first cousin of the autocratic Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II (with whom George bore a striking resemblance) furthering British democracy.

Paul Ham

#4. To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

Andy Zaltzman

#5. Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

Shimon Peres

#6. I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror - and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure.

Doc Hastings

#7. You can get fired from any job at any time.

Jorge Garcia

#8. All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

Marshall McLuhan

#9. Of course it isn't. It's just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis or - what's that strange thing you British play?" "Er, cricket? Self-loathing?" "Parliamentary democracy.

Douglas Adams

#10. It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.

Graham Joyce

#11. Jule was a poet - poetry was like psi, she said, like thought, a thing that compressed images to essence.

Joan D. Vinge

#12. I don't know how to live a normal human life.

Jesse Andrews

#13. In almost every successful social movement of the last century, from Gandhi's campaign against British rule to the Solidarity movement in Poland to the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, democracy was the result of a local awakening.

Barack Obama

#14. Now undoubtedly, we face some very British challenges when it comes to infrastructure. We rightly cherish our back yards and green spaces, and we'll defend them passionately when projects are announced. We live in a democracy, and we like to debate these things, often for many years.

Evan Davis

#15. In that light, philosophy is not so much
or not simply
'the love of wisdom,' but instead marks the passage from wonder as a noun to wonder as a verb. Philosophy is the love of wisdom to the extent that it remains an incitement to it.

Michael Munro

#16. British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

Nigel Farage

#17. Youths are the life blood of any nation.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#18. British rule meant not democracy -colonialism is almost by definition underdemocratic - but limited constitutional liberalism and capitalism

Fareed Zakaria