Democracy Quotes · Page 113

In a mature democracy any proposed policy should be subjected to a close analysis of its likely benefits and costs.

— Dominic Grieve

Confronting Republicans can definitely mobilize a disaffected Democratic base.

— Ari Melber

Brexit divided the country, divided families, and people's respect for a democracy has struggled.

— Lindsay Hoyle

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in…

— James Monroe

I am not a pundit or a psephologist and thus not in the business of calling elections.

— Barkha Dutt

Democrats would pull the ladder from aspiring Americans and create a permanent status of government-run mediocrity.

— Bill Hagerty

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

— Will Rogers

“The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that…

— Keith Ellison

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election…

— Abraham Lincoln

Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon…

— Kenneth O. Morgan

I can do an hour-long speech about Democrats taking African Americans for granted, and I'd have a line behind me of very…

— Emanuel Cleaver

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of…

— Chinua Achebe

In view of Chinas growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asias permanent peace and prosperity is to have…

— Jim Costa

The Supreme Court 2013 ruling that gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act set in motion what many feared: the subjection of minorities,…

— Marc Veasey

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain…

— Ivan Krastev

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did…

— Tony Benn

Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of…

— James Madison

Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is…

— Herbert Croly

I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost…

— Tim Soutphommasane

Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of…

— Newt Gingrich

New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies.…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

In the United States the government has become less important. So, it's democracy, but as each year passes it seems that the…

— Will Oldham

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the…

— Aristotle

The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

In democracy, people's verdict is always final and we all have to accept it with humility.

— Narendra Modi

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

— Mark Russell

“The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart…

— Harry Zohn

“Here the only one who has the right to prohibit anything is the government, we live in a democracy.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their…

— Andrew Carnegie

Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the…

— John Doolittle

A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

— William J. Clinton

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

— Barney Frank

Democracy or military rule, Right from the repressive policies of the ruling class, then grabbing power from the device remains in

— Mak_786

“...in every election their votes cancel each other, and they are as no one.”

— Lydia Davis

Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.

— Sharon Salzberg

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We need to get better at voting and be a voice for the people who do not have one.

— George Lopez

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in…

— Bernie Sanders

A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.

— Sam Smith