Democracy Quotes · Page 158

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

— Shami Chakrabarti

The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

— Jim Hightower

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at…

— Wendell Willkie

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

— Eskinder Nega

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of…

— Richard M. Nixon

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

— S. I. Hayakawa

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

— Fred Reed

Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women.…

— Jane Fonda

All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it…

— Benazir Bhutto

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain.…

— Judith Perelman Rossner

Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Nothing is more important than the integrity of our election system and it is past time for Congress to come together and…

— Nicole Malliotakis

Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really…

— Frank Zappa

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around -…

— Paul van Dyk

Republicans are afraid to act in accordance with the election results. Republicans seem to be in denial about election results. It's one…

— Ann Coulter

We have Americans who are voting for someone in whom they have confidence, about whom they have hope, because at after the…

— Frank Bruni

“The conservatives won. They turned the Democrats into a center-right party. They got the entire country singing 'God Bless America,' stress on…

— Jonathan Franzen

No subject was more important in the 2014 elections than healthcare, and Republicans in Congress should waste no time in taking decisive…

— Bobby Jindal

“Now I have very little respect for the electoral system in the United States. I could have respected it in the early…

— Myles Horton

In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of…

— Wright Patman

“Any government that presumes to direct how its people relate to ultimate truths either believes it is the only guide to those…

— Timothy Shah

“The state — or, to make matters more concrete, the government — consists of a gang of men exactly like you and…

— H.L. Mencken

Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They…

— Andy Rooney

“Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away.”

— Daniel Bliss

Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

— Doug Larson

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction…

— Barbara Jordan

When you see all of the smoke billowing up from the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the advice of their nominee:…

— Ronald Reagan

Either you support the existing global elite, or you want real change and believe in nation-state democracy.

— Nigel Farage

The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.

— Naomi Wolf

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

— Hillary Clinton

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.

— Glenn Ford

Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House.

— Hasan Minhaj

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

— Nick Lampson

Every nations problem is politics by ignoring the country,religion without considering god.

— Sumesh Nair

I believe, and that is that I am the strongest candidate to take it to the Republicans and win in November [2016].

— Hillary Clinton

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

— Robert Breault

I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.

— Neil Young

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

— Frank Herbert