Democracy Quotes · Page 150

The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.

— Phil Donahue

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

— Daisaku Ikeda

Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Some Republicans support gay rights, but prefer progress through legislative action or majority rule at the ballot box, rather than judicial action.

— Margaret Hoover

We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first.

— Mitch McConnell

Our democracy flourishes when people stand up for themselves and engage in the political process.

— Maggie Hassan

America's objective in the Middle East is to create democracy in the same way that my goal on a first date to…

— Dov Davidoff

The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.

— Juan Williams

Let's say we were a peacekeeping force in some small country that most people had never heard of. And we were there…

— Harper Reed

Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice…

— Karl Marx

What other, newer democracies find relatively easy - conducting an election, the counting of votes, the peaceful transition of power - seems…

— Barkha Dutt

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history…

— Jan Schakowsky

All about midterm elections is turnouts. And turnout is measured by enthusiasm, intensity, how interested are people. And President Obama - candidate…

— Mark Shields

The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table.…

— Christine Pelosi

The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in…

— Will Rogers

We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the…

— Bernie Sanders

Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In…

— George Orwell

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of…

— Anonymous

“Today's Republican Party...is an insurgent outlier. It has become ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of…

— Thomas E. Mann

Music has as many roles as people make it. I traveled to Burma once years ago to witness the people's struggle for…

— Ani DiFranco

My belief in the growth and permanence of democracy is undimmed. I know that the people will cast off the new dictatorship…

— Sylvia Pankhurst

You might as well just hand the election to Hillary Clinton or whoever runs, because frankly, the Republicans wouldn't even have 1…

— Donald Trump

If you run for election with a particular agenda about saving jobs, about strengthening manufacturing and farming jobs, about tackling predatory gambling…

— Nick Xenophon

Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by…

— Martha Minow

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

— Bill Moyers

My duty is to call for free elections because there is an abuse of power, and we live in a dictatorship.

— Juan Guaido

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.

— Jair Bolsonaro

The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and…

— Ehud Olmert

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

— Garry Wills

This power of democracy is a matter of pride for our country, something which we must always cherish, preserve and further strengthen.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Hillary Clinton, [Democrats] say, leads the popular vote by two million, and a shift of a few votes in a few states…

— Steve Inskeep

The only possible reason the Republicans have declared a war on women is they must think women have oil.

— Andy Borowitz

“The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable.”

— Carl Sagan

“We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.”

— Paulo Coelho

Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

— Mark Shields

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

— Grover Cleveland

Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error…

— Stephen Colbert