America is a country ready to be taken-in fact, longing to be taken-by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
You're guaranteed to have outcomes you like and outcomes you don't like in a democracy. — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Erasing national borders does not make people safer or more prosperous. It undermines democracy and trades away prosperity. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio. We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair… — Kenneth Blackwell Copy Share Image
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Our political class no longer has any convictions. You can only pass along the beliefs that you hold. They no longer believe… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Herman Cain is probably well-liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party, conservative movement… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
“What if freedom were the ability to make up our minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with whom we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“This, then, is the dread that seems to lie beneath the fear of equalizing. Equity is seen as dispossession. Local autonomy is… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch,… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
'Elections have consequences,' President Obama said, setting his new policy agenda just three days after taking office in 2009. Three elections later,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice. — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry. — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law. — John Fund Copy Share Image
Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
Conservatives, Republicans have to rebuild public confidence in what we say we are going to do. That is a high hurdle but… — Kori Schake Copy Share Image
“True democracy speaks; it does not shout. It listens to reason, not the roar of populism.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
The right to religious freedom and the right to vote are both fundamental to our democracy. — Lois Frankel Copy Share Image
Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
European democracy, for me, is the best form of government invented by mankind. — Petro Poroshenko Copy Share Image
The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy. — Anker Jørgensen Copy Share Image
You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
