Democracy is moving forward, sometimes a little bit slowly, but it is moving forward. This is an obvious step, it is an… — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
Elections have been free and fair with full participation of the people, reinforcing that the ballot is mightier than the bullet. — Anurag Thakur Copy Share Image
An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy. — Barbara Copy Share Image
Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of… — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Trump has torn off America's Band-Aid. The stories we are covering are about fundamental American values. We are having debates about democracy… — Brian Stelter Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, who go after the crowd - have never been intellectuals. Intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
As a party, Democrats must focus on the pocketbook issues that our constituents care about every day when they wake up to… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
The choice of whom to vote for in a general election is not only a choice of Prime Minister. It is a… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
If we don't have a responsive democracy, all the debates about charter schools, and fracking, and high-stakes testing, and the militarization of… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for… — Beth Simone Noveck Copy Share Image
The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
“As I saw it, we had three Democratic parties: the party of Barack Obama, the party of Hillary Clinton, and this weak… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
While I was writing my book, I got a top police official in Bombay an invitation to study terrorism at the Rand… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis. — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
California Democrats - we fight on the front lines - we don't equivocate on the sidelines. — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
You believe that you can win the nomination of your party, and then you believe that you're the strongest candidate to win… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account. — Susana Martinez Copy Share Image
Venezuela has immense talents and resources, and we can help rebuild our democracy. — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
I dont think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President polarizing after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years… — Jeffrey C Stewart Copy Share Image
