In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The E.U. elections provide an opportunity for the people of the United Kingdom to knock some sense into the heads of their… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away. — Pilou Asbaek Copy Share Image
In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather, "With what, in this modern democracy, will… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for… — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
Former Secretary (Hillary) Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy. These efforts as a… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory.… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
It's not all about building police forces and more prisons. This is in a sense an abdication of what the rule of… — George Stamatis Copy Share Image
The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke,… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately lectured about wasting our vote or… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I was born a Zionist, because I didn't have a choice about that. It was the ether of my family life, but… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The development of European integration can be divided into two phases. The first era ended with the Maastricht Treaty. It was a… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
American democracy is really under attack here [Clinton campaign that was hacked]. And the question is how are we and in particular… — James Carville Copy Share Image
I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
'Compromise' isn't supposed to be a dirty word. It is, in fact, how representative democracy works. — Joe Kennedy III Copy Share Image
“The PM glanced a look of pure malevolence. A terrifying glimpse into what madness, ego and naked ambition it takes to lead… — Alan Dean Copy Share Image
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary… — Eleanor Dark Copy Share Image
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice creates a dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith. — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth… — Adlai Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Democracy is Nationalism disguised as Leninism. Totalitarian disguised as equalitarian.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people. — Angus King Copy Share Image
Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority. — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what… — Stjepan Hauser Copy Share Image
No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation. — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
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