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Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
"Barack Obama: The President's News Conference With Prime Minister Reinfeldt of Sweden in Stockholm" by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, atThe American Presidency Project (4 September 2013) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=104040&st=&st1= <br class="br">2013 <br class="br">Context: As free peoples, we recognize that democracy is the most effective form of government ever devised for delivering progress and opportunity and prosperity and freedom to people. And as two of the most innovative economies on Earth, we cherish that freedom that allows us to innovate and create, which is why we’re leaders in science and research and development -- those things that pioneers new industries and broaden our horizons.
John Allen Fraser (1931) Canadian politician
Source: The House Of Commons At Work (1993), Chapter 1, The System of Government, p. 5
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in the House of Commons (11 November 1947), published in 206–07 The Official Report, House of Commons (5th Series), 11 November 1947, vol. 444, cc. http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1947/nov/11/parliament-bill#column_206 <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955) <br class="br">Variant: Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried. <br class="br">Context: Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
“Zaire's one-party system is the most elaborate form of democracy.”
Mobutu Sésé Seko (1930–1997) President of Zaïre
Ayittey, p. 210
Benjamin R. Barber (1939–2017) US political scientist
Source: Strong democracy: Participatory politics for a new age (2003), p. 3
Margaret Nasha (1947) Motswana politician
"One woman’s struggles" https://www.sundaystandard.info/ococaone-womanocos-strugglesoco/ (24 March 2014)
Olusegun Adeniyi (1965) Nigerian journalist
That is where we are in Nigeria today because the choices made by citizens with their ballots are being increasingly rendered useless. And this threat to ‘the legitimacy on the system’ is coming from our courts, including the highest court in the country whose decisions are not only final but affect those of lower courts. <br class="br"> Politics In Nigeria: When Judges Become Our Electoral College https://www.opinionnigeria.com/politics-in-nigeria-when-judges-become-our-electoral-college-by-olusegun-adeniyi/ (February 28, 2020), Opinion Nigeria.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1940s, Third inaugural address (1941)