Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If you elect a religious party into power, you no longer have a democracy. — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday. — Jaboukie Young-White Copy Share Image
It's a big, complicated democracy, and one of the strengths of our country is... its rich diversity. — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
“This is how we tend to think of democracies dying: at the hands of men with guns.” — Steven Levitsky Copy Share Image
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Political institutions are fair game in political debates in a democracy. Nothing is more fair game, in fact, than political matters of… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“You want Change, today we'll show you Change! Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!” — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
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Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The war against ISIS will pose many new challenges for the next commander-in-chief. The last two presidents [George W. Bush and Barack… — Wolf Blitzer Copy Share Image
You gather a certain number of people around you but, you know, they look - they look - they didn't look to… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people have yet to learn… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote.… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
[The Republicans] offer . . . a detailed agenda for national renewal. . . . [On] reducing illegitimacy . . . the… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions,… — Goh Chok Tong Copy Share Image
“[P]eople only make decisions based on what they know. You can have everyone in the country vote freely and democratically and still… — Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
“We must sober up and admit that too many of the Republicans and the Democrats have played us, lied to us and… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I don't even know in American educational history classes how much of D-Day, World War II, all of that is taught versus… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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