Voting is crucial, and I don't give a damn how you look at it: there are efforts to stop people from voting.… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Republicans turned against organized workers and abandoned the idea of promoting equality at the bottom of the economic scale. They turned their… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, this promise, this allure of democracy, drove hundreds of thousands of people in East Germany onto the streets. What… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that people chose the star power of Sunny Deol over the hard work of Sunil Jakhar. Maybe our democracy… — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
The Senate and the country need Senators of courage who are prepared to make their mark on history by standing with past… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“Grassroots Tea Party activism therefore marries participatory engagement and considerable learning about the workings of government with factually ungrounded beliefs about the… — Thdea Skocpol Copy Share Image
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?"… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We live in a democratic country, and I take great pride in saying that I'm from India, a country where democracy is… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Some Republicans are good, and some Republicans are bad. Some Democrats are good, and some Democrats are bad. There are good police,… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the… — Rich Galen Copy Share Image
I would like the refugee crisis to become a new beginning in the Turkish-European relationship. But it would be very problematic if,… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Voluntary public funding of elections solves the free speech 'problem' with more speech instead of more regulation: by giving qualified candidates who… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
A lot of young people are very cynical about the political framework because they see the countries that preach democracy and human… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
If we've got Democrats, whether they be in the House or the Senate, that are not willing to put our national security… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
By defying our country's commitment to free and fair elections, Trump is defying our entire democracy. After all, what is democracy if… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective… — Roscoe Bartlett Copy Share Image
It's important to know where candidates for president are getting their ideas. Where do these ideas come from, who funds them and… — David Brock Copy Share Image
I knew that Britain and the United States were beacons of freedom and democracy at a time when my life - and… — Frank Lowy Copy Share Image
In most countries, a lopsided election represents a mandate that the winning party could then use to implement their agenda, but the… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush,… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Ours is a representative republic with a Constitution in which is recognized the natural law and the natural rights of man. It… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
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