George Soros Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

  George Soros

  Government, Democracy, Investing

  "Philanthropist Under Fire". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. March 1, 2004.

• We in the United States are very often - since we are a democracy and we have national interests, we've often made the mistake that a democracy has to adopt America's interests, and that is a contradiction because a democracy basically is people deciding what their interests are.

  George Soros

  Mistake, Democracies Have, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.

  George Soros

  Government, Law, Majority Rule

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

  George Soros

  Freedom, Home, America

  "Why We Must Not Reelect President Bush". www.project-syndicate.org. October 17, 2004.

• If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

  George Soros

  Law, Democracy, Principles

  George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.12, PublicAffairs

• We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.

  George Soros

  Political, Democracy, Triumph

  George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.11, PublicAffairs

• A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

  George Soros

  Political, Democracy, Essentials

  "Why We Must Not Reelect President Bush". www.project-syndicate.org. October 17, 2004.

• Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

  George Soros

  Democracies Have, People, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important thing in a democracy is that it doesn't necessarily have to agree with what America's interests are, and it doesn't necessarily have to be serving American interests.

  George Soros

  Taken, Democracies Have, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

• To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.

  George Soros

  Government, People, Mind

  Interview with Mark Shapiro, September 05, 2000.

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