What we can't allow is for thugs out there, wherever they come from, to try to stop democracy taking place. — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs. — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
“High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy. — Alberto Fujimori Copy Share Image
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Millions of people walk into the voting booth and vote for someone they like. — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, dead people generally vote for Democrats rather than Republicans. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No single solution or actor can deal with the complex and interrelated challenges to electoral integrity arising from manipulated data, hate speech,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet:… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The right to participate in the choice of representatives for Congress includes, as we have said, the right to cast a ballot… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don't think it is a certainty that we're headed toward Putin's Russia, as some commentariat… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The modern GOP has perfected this cyclical deficit outrage ritual. Republicans run up the tab when they control the White House, then… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
It is hard to know exactly when the Arab Spring, a phrase used to describe the beginning of the Arab peoples' demand… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
If Putin and those around him had been smart enough to go in a different direction... The country was ready. The conditions… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
They're rights that should be endemic to any democracy. The right to a free quality education, from elementary school right through higher… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“I was like, Then what is it? A republic. It’s a republic. Why? Because we elect people to vote for us. That’s… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“It is really one of the most serious faults which can be found with the whole conception of democracy, that its cultural… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
As the Democrats get revved up at their convention in Boston, President Bush is fighting back the only way he knows how:… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
In America, we do not have a democracy. It's not what we have. We have a representative republic and therefore the rules… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Person, who could not go through the change of ages and got stuck in the old times, is like a fish thrown… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I always say to young people, I want you to be the next generation of politicians. I want you to take over,… — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger? — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The cornerstone of our policy in that part of the world is to help democracies. Lebanon's a democracy. We want the Siniora… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The reality is, the Republicans in Massachusetts are irrelevant and they're in collusion with the Democrats. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Republicans keen to shake Donald Trump loose from the party underestimate his popularity at their peril. — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
In our band, we had such an interesting democracy, and it worked really well. — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
The Democrats are the architects of the mess we're in that we are trying to get out of, that we're trying extricate… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals… — Plato Copy Share Image
