'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
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
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target — Ashleigh Brilliant 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
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
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury. — John Oliver 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
What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
What the Democrats do with income inequality is punish the people at the top of whatever bracket we're talking about. If it's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes itdifficult… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
“[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“By creating a society in which all people, of all colors, were granted freedom and citizenship, the Haitian Revolution forever transformed the… — Laurent Dubois Copy Share Image
Democracy is about criticism. I didn't elect Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Inequality also distorts our democracy. It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and unlimited campaign contributions,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists,… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
In order to maintain American democracy we need to tackle the problematic influence of big money donors, corporate political action committees and… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
Republicans should save the clip of Jonathan Gruber and run it over and over again in the run-up to the 2016 election.… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam. — Siraj Wahhaj Copy Share Image
Our challenge is to restore both trust in Labour as a party of government and trust in democracy as the best means… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened. — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a 'republic, not a democracy.' This is… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Our democracy... is only as good as the American people demand it should be. — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes… — Ziauddin Sardar Copy Share Image
Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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