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
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
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection -… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Children aren't born with the techniques of democratic problem solving, but they are born with one of its key components - the… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
Daddy loved our country, he loved our history. He was always talking about American history and telling us stories from American history,… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Most people that I know don believe that a handful of corporations request sit together without disclosure, by the way, and pump… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We want perfect elections, not just any kind of elections. And it's the electoral commission that organizes elections in the country -… — Joseph Kabila Copy Share Image
Republicans can't always agree on where to cut spending. They certainly can't agree on what to do about entitlements. There isn't a… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
“Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. In this respect, as in many others,… — carl sagan Copy Share Image
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
So many academics have been imprisoned or expelled from their university posts just because they signed a letter calling for peaceful solution… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
There're a lot of Republicans in the state of Texas that vote by mail, probably more than Democrats. We make it an… — Marc Veasey Copy Share Image
The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said… — Rachel Maddow 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
Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior. — Dennis Prager 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
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
We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C. — David Brock Copy Share Image
As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
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
Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about. — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
