Ahmed Sheikh (1949) Palestinian journalist
Source: World Politics Watch http://www.worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=395, 7 December 2006.
Original French: Or le Maroc est une démocratie. <br class="br"> Interview with Le Figaro–September 2001 http://www.maroc.ma/fr/discours-royaux/interview-accord%C3%A9e-par-sa-majest%C3%A9-le-roi-mohammed-vi-au-quotidien-fran%C3%A7ais-%C2%AB-le
Ahmed Sheikh (1949) Palestinian journalist
Source: World Politics Watch http://www.worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=395, 7 December 2006.
“Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.”
Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007) 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan
Speech at Harvard University (1989), as quoted in "Born leader who lived and died by her unfailing conviction" in The Scotsman (28 December 2007) http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/-Born-leader-who-lived.3624495.jp <br class="br">Context: Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should... come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value — democracy.
Augusto Boal (1931–2009) Brazilian writer
As quoted in "To Dynamize the Audience: Interview with Augusto Boal" by Robert Enight, Canadian Theatre Review 47 (Summer 1986), pp. 41-49
R. Venkataraman (1910–2009) seventh Vice-President of India and the 8th President of India
The Rediff Interview/R Venkataraman
Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900) German socialist politician
Wilhelm Liebknecht, On The Political Position of Social-Democracy https://www.marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-w/1889/political-position.htm (1869 & 1889)
“There is no democracy in the world of intellect, and no democracy of taste.”
Robertson Davies book A Voice from the Attic
A Voice from the Attic (1960)
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“It is not Socialism that subverts democracy, but democracy that subverts capitalism.”
Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 17, p. 320
“If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy.”
David Davis (1948) British Conservative Party politician and former businessman
David Davis MP speech "Europe: It's Time To Decide" http://www.daviddavismp.com/david-davis-mp-delivers-speech-on-the-opportunities-for-a-referendum-on-europe/ ( 19 November 2012 https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2012/11/invitation-to-david-davis-lecture-on-europe.html) <br class="br">On democracy and referendums