When I fight elections, I don't think about results whether it is assembly or Lok Sabha polls. — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.” — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Most Americans do really think that Muslims all want to take over and they don't want democracy and they want nothing but… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“I abhore democracy in it's truest form , because I am always disgusted with the will of the mob” — Gerald Lanteigne Copy Share Image
If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one… — Nikolay Dobrolyubov Copy Share Image
About 65 percent of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is not the best candidate to go head to head with Hillary Clinton. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
Democrats have a cultural problem. People that have a faith-based value system either don't vote for us, or they do, but have… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Nobody who's thought about politics or democracy over the thousands of years that people have been thinking about democracy hasn't come up… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Whether we're Democrats, Republicans, or independents - it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We defeated communism in part by showing the world that a commitment to democracy and expanding economic opportunity makes people's lives better… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
Republicans in Congress are getting concerned that President Obama will try to use the final year of his term to push through… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I confess to considerable doubts about the eventual stability of democracy, unless buttressed by constitutional safeguards and a general climate of opinion… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
[Democrats] have gotten rid of the mask, and they can't help themselves. And they are exposing who they really are every day… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship. — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Here in the U.S., we've made democracy into a science. A cold, impersonal science. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Every Missourian should be confident in the legitimacy of their vote and take pride in the strength and security of our elections… — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys. — William Greider Copy Share Image
If you are insulted for your sarcasm, that means you hit the target you killed the person you mocked on. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves,… — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I think Hong Kong people's struggle for democracy is similar to David versus Goliath. But this struggle is not just about me. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
The principles of the SPD have remained the same for 150 years: democracy, human dignity, justice and inclusion. We will never change… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
America's elections are the foundation of our democracy - so protecting them is a priority for the FBI and our partners. — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image