Democracy Quotes · Page 177

What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from…

— Mark Weisbrot

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is 'objective,' all else is propaganda.

— Studs Terkel

Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.

— Andy Borowitz

We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more…

— David Brinkley

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

— Kofi Annan

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the…

— Jeff Melvoin

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.

— Che Guevara

For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the…

— Olof Palme

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like…

— Jaron Lanier

Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which…

— Robert O. Paxton

I've entered politics the moment I marked my finger with the electoral voting mark. So I've entered politics, but I am not…

— Kamal Haasan

For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is…

— David Novak

Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is?...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and…

— Jeff Melvoin

I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this…

— Grover Norquist

What many of the Senate Democrats are taking as the lesson of this election was that Hillary Clinton is too moderate and…

— Ted Cruz

Osama bin Laden has managed to replace fear of God and adherence to the Quran with his philosophy of jihad above all…

— Malcolm Nance

“Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but…

— Harry S. Truman

I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And…

— Larry Diamond

It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how…

— Chris Patten

Neoliberalism is going to fail by being replaced. The system is entirely broken. Whenever you have a system that equates a market…

— Henry Giroux

We all have a large stake in preserving our democracy, but I maintain that those without power in our society, the black,…

— Charles Rangel

“The elect in due time, though in various degrees and in different measures, attain the assurance of this their eternal and unchangeable…

— Synod of Dort

“Politics are like shoes. On one side you have the left, and on the other side you have the right. And every…

— Jarod Kintz

“We may not have sewage, drinking water, and olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.”

— Arvind Adiga

Republicans, say Democrats, are too simplistic about what ails America, and their solutions are straight out of 'J.A.G.'

— Kevin Bleyer

The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.

— Mark Shields

Democracy is worth having, but it's something that you have to work on, you have to fight for.

— Lloyd Austin

Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me.

— Anonymous

“I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.”

— Mimsy Sadofsky

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

— Anonymous

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure…

— Timothy Garton Ash

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

— Fran Lebowitz

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart…

— Vartan Gregorian

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

— Vladimir Putin

“In a democracy where the ignorant are in the majority, democracy always slides towards autocracy.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I have no love for the Republicans, but the Democrats drive me absolutely crazy.

— Cenk Uygur

It looks like they [the Republicans] don't want to win if it means winning with [Donald] Trump. They must really hate Trump…

— Rush Limbaugh

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

— Eleanor Roosevelt

John Lewis walked across a bridge, in order to repair the infrastructure of our democracy. A bridge to the future.

— Raphael Warnock