英國首相邱吉爾先生曾經說過這麼一句話,”Democracy is a terrible form of government, but eight times better than any other.” (另有其它說法是”It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”)
民主是很糟糕的政府型態，但比任何其它存在過的型態都來得好。