It is not often that democracy makes you want to shimmy.

We must recognize that a single free election does not a democracy make.

The president recognizes that elections of an executive alone do not a democracy make.

As democracy makes its way east, it gathers special burdens.

Historically, the most difficult decision a democracy could make was to go to war.

"I come here because they say America is a just society and democracy makes everybody equal."

Yet military rule and democracy have never made good bedfellows in Pakistan.

"The concern is that one multiparty election does not a democracy make," he said.

And representative democracy makes it hard to say no to any of the competing interests.

The original finding was that liberal democracies have never made war with one another.