“Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.”

“People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.”

“If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.”

“Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.”

“Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.”

“In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to gu...”

“Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.”

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words ...”