2018 is a horrendous cycle for Democrats. For starters they have to defend 5 seats in states Barack Obama lost either 2008, 2012 or both. — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old… — Daniel Greenberg Copy Share Image
Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live. — Leyla Zana Copy Share Image
Ripping on Republicans is not that fun for us only because everyone else does it. — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
Republicans are being loyal to their donors. They're being loyal to the paymasters, if you will. And it's squandering an opportunity. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Democracy is just a process that reflects the morals and ethics of the people who vote. It doesn't guarantee you freedom—just check… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity— he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities,… — John Francis Hylan Copy Share Image
“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is]… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Herman Cain is probably well-liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party, conservative movement… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy.… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
“What if freedom were the ability to make up our minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with whom we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy. — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower. — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work. — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand. — Brad Carson Copy Share Image
If mental gymnastics were an Olympic sport, Republicans desperate to defend Trump would all be gold medal contenders. — Jessica Tarlov Copy Share Image
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting… — Jair Bolsonaro Copy Share Image
There are a lot of areas where Republicans can take aspects of Millennials' lives and really speak policy to them. — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Can it be believed that the democracy, which has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings, will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists? — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The days of Democrats biding our time, biting our tongue, and triangulating at the margins are over. — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
“If at the end of the day the people of our city escape, it will be good.But if somehow our democracy remains… — Boaz Yakin Copy Share Image
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