Democracy Quotes · Page 172

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women's vote will backfire.

— David Brock

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Secretary of State, maybe they [Republicans] would consider Steve Hadley for that job.

— George Stephanopoulos

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains…

— Thomas Jefferson

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

— Indira Gandhi

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

— Allen West

Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season,…

— Edward Brooke

The Republicans have never had, in their story - conservatives, either, have never had... I'm talking this in a media context, now.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic…

— P. J. O'Rourke

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which…

— Augustus

To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the…

— Barack Obama

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals…

— Mike Pence

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

— Brent Scowcroft

Britain is a parliamentary democracy. Power rests in Parliament, in the House of Commons, and the government - the executive - has…

— Caroline Lucas

“On the one hand, we have seen that the particularizing logic of election is an expression of the particularizing logic of love.…

— R. W. L. Moberly

“In our opinion, there is no public good other than one that assures the citizens' private good; we judge institutions from the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Under democracy, the incentive structure is systematically changed. Egalitarian sentiments and envy are given free reign. Everyone, not just the king, is…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Democracy is to have different ideas, even extreme ones. In democracy there is space for all of them and bridges to connect…

— Burhan Sonmez

“As with equality, the neoconservatives, and now conservatives more generally, frame themselves as enthusiastic promoters of democracy; they frequently promote democracy as…

— George Hawley

As one looks back, one sees that the fall of the Berlin Wall opened the door to three developments - the Eurozone,…

— Timothy Garton Ash

When considering the Islamic world, Turkey is the best example of a country where democracy irreversibly gained a foothold despite religious and…

— Garry Kasparov

I have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you…

— Kevin Spacey

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

— Abraham Lincoln

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

— Elizabeth Drew

There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that.

— Carles Puigdemont

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

— Ron Paul

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that…

— Indira Gandhi

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

— George W. Bush

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

— Tom Stoppard

Unlike the Congress, our party believes in democracy and takes a collective decision.

— Smriti Irani

“Remember, democracy is directing a theatre of unwilling participants, not leading an army of loyal followers.”

— James Maxwell

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan,…

— Frank Chodorov

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

— Robert Kagan

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

— June Jordan

If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them!

— Hans Rosling

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

— Russell Brand