Democracy works when people claim it as their own. — Bill Moyers

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. — Ralph Nader

A democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government after the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness sake, I will call it the idea of freedom. — Theodore Parker

It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting. — Tom Stoppard

The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose. — Barack Obama

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves. — Thomas Sowell