It is easier to restrain wild donkeys (Democrats) than to raise a dead elephant (Republicans) — Arthur Hoff Copy Share Image
“Jules turned to her, incredulous. 'Do you socialize with Republicans?' "'It happens, Jules.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote. — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
Without democracy, we are voiceless subjects. But with it, we are citizens armed with the power to change our destinies. — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say… — George Aiken Copy Share Image
Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has… — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
I no longer believe that we can 'fix' the police, as though the police are anything other than a mirror reflecting back… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm.… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It's perfectly OK that there are certain people who do not accept Islam at all. Therefore, to announce that I am a… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology. The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people.” “That’s democracy.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
When I fight elections, I don't think about results whether it is assembly or Lok Sabha polls. — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
The Democrats thought that Hillary Clinton is too aggressive and too much into regime change. — Juan Williams 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
“Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.” — Erica Jong 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
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
“I abhore democracy in it's truest form , because I am always disgusted with the will of the mob” — Gerald Lanteigne 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
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
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
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
U.S. elections are run by counties, and the laws they follow are set by each state. — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
