Democracy Quotes · Page 145

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

— Benazir Bhutto

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Rising fuel prices, growing agrarian distress, and unemployment are the three major issues to dominate the 2019 general elections.

— Naveen Patnaik

Every election is important and each election says it's more important than the last.

— will.i.am

In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need…

— Tzipi Livni

If Republicans start losing their seats because they're climate deniers, that is a very salutary signal.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

“Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

How one election has exposed the true dire straits of the Democrat Party. It really is profound.

— Rush Limbaugh

It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the…

— Phil Gramm

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public…

— James Madison

The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign (…

— Hilaire Belloc

Ten years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely…

— Juan Manuel Santos

I think it is extremely important that the West support this experiment [of Tunisian democracy] with investment, with aid, with symbolic support,…

— Larry Diamond

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the…

— James Madison

The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls,…

— Khaled Mashal

We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the…

— Eric Holder

I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. The working…

— Masha Gessen

For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an…

— Barack Obama

“Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm…

— Frank Zappa

“These four changes—in the nature of work, education, social values, and communication technology—make it harder for dictators to dominate citizens in the…

— Sergei Guriev

One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting.…

— Barack Obama

If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All…

— Albert J. Beveridge

How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the…

— Timothy Zahn

“What’s the point of having democratic elections when the algorithms know not only how each person is going to vote, but also…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

— Ronald Reagan

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

— Martin McGuinness

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

— Rush Limbaugh

The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.

— Maajid Nawaz

We need to, in my opinion, to restore the full strength of the federal Voting Rights Act.

— Alex Padilla

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

Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.

— Rand Paul

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

“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

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

Democracy is a process - it's not an end state, and our democracy continues to evolve, and sometimes we go backward.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

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

Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy,

— Sharan Burrow

When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs.

— Ilkin Santak

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

— Christopher Dodd