When there is a parliamentarian crisis, the only solution in a democracy is early elections. — Petro Poroshenko Copy Share Image
Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy. — Dilma Rousseff Copy Share Image
While 1857 was about 'Swaraj ki ladai', the 2014 elections would be about 'Surajya ki ladai'. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
When you lose an election, you don't blink, you don't turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
I suspect that a lot of the frustration people feel about government would feel a lot better if we had corporate influence… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the… — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country.… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
If you come from a family like Gandhi family, people have high expectations. He needed to perform. I wish Rahul could have… — Anurag Thakur Copy Share Image
The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is… — Justin Raimondo Copy Share Image
“Rather, he accepted democracy as an objective fact and wanted to address positive and negative lessons the French people could learn from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow is the day of the yearly election of the Well-Doer. Tomorrow we shall again hand over to our Well-Doer the keys… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“After a few Republicans on the Houston city council supported the Democratic majority's proposal that stalled cars be towed immediately off the… — Bill Bishop Copy Share Image
“The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend [excessively] - they have the power to print money and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Not everyone would see a passive public as necessarily a bad thing. There are benefits to limiting political engagement to a minority… — Cherian George Copy Share Image
In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I am happy in Bollywood, but I am contesting elections to solve problems of people, as they have trust in me. — Rakhi Sawant Copy Share Image
Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves. — Henry Campbell-Bannerman Copy Share Image
“Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage (From LONE WOLF, p.50)” — Len Webster Copy Share Image
And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad… — Mike Lowry Copy Share Image
I'm one of these people that, once you have had your election and you have elected your candidate, let's see what actually… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and… — Elizabeth Grace Saunders Copy Share Image
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“The only realistic way to change things is direct participation in democracy.” — Jón Gnarr Copy Share Image
Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach... — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It was the British who began the tradition of parliamentary democracy, now emulated all over the world. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern. — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
![“I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend [excessively] - they have the power to print money and will use money to get votes. If you look at inflation under the Roman Empire, with absolute rulers, they had much greater inflation, so we don't set the…” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/3d6/charlie-munger-458_absolutes_i-think-democracies-are-prone-to-inflati_1006251.jpg)
