“I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.”
Alexander Woollcott
“I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there”
Maureen Reagan
“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.”
Rosa Luxemburg
“They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.”
Chinua Achebe
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
George Jean Nathan
“Elections without any opposition and with low turnout aren't good for anyone, not least the government, which should evaluate the anti-democratic impact.”
Teodoro Petkoff
