Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership. — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We need to, in my opinion, to restore the full strength of the federal Voting Rights Act. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I've been able to bridge divides in a very partisan time and get Republicans and Democrats to work with me to try… — Steve Bullock Copy Share Image
When Democrats are proposing things like a Green New Deal and Medicare for all and proposing that they take away your private… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely confident that the actions we took in Iraq are influencing reformers and freedom lovers in the greater Middle East. And… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Trump did not win the 2016 presidential election solely on the votes of his base; he won it after he consolidated wavering… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
“A democratic society must seek to give every young person, whether native-born or newcomer, the knowledge and skills to succeed as an… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
One of the striking things and Donald Trump is right, he gets no Democratic votes. It's interesting there were Democrats from states… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
If democracy is destroyed in Britain, it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away.… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy, — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Democracy is a process - it's not an end state, and our democracy continues to evolve, and sometimes we go backward. — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in. — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better. — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
The PRI can afford to push democratization; it can afford to be generous because it has a very good chance of winning… — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
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