People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It's voting rights or it's the filibuster. It's LGBTQ+ rights or it's the filibuster. It's union rights or it's the filibuster. It's… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
Democratic openings that come about in that way - the overthrow of a totalitarian government by external powers - it makes it… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars:… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
The 2014 elections are not about winning or losing, but of ensuring a bright future for India. It is about sowing the… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Who should regulate the media? Who should control the press? The commentariat agonises, as if the choice was between state control through… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
If you look at the Associated Press wires, there's a constant flow of information coming in. At that time I happened to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In 1960, just 5 percent of Republicans and 4 percent of Democrats said that they would feel “displeased” if their child married… — Cass R. Sunstein Copy Share Image
If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
Burma is not yet a full-fledged democracy. We have started working on the road to full democracy. We have a lot of… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
I've listened to Republicans say over and over again that we should focus on enforcing the laws that we have. The great… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
It's not that we must convince people to believe in democracy as a notion or as a political aspiration; it's that we… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
Russia's interference in the United States' 2016 election could not have been more different from what the United States does to promote… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know… — Jim Bolger Copy Share Image
[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything… — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed,… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Three key elements triggered NDA's spectacular 2014 election victory - taking development and prosperity to the lowest rung of society, eradication of… — Amit Shah Copy Share Image
On the fourth Thursday in August, my neighbors and I cordon off the ends of our block and take over the street… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
I am a private citizen with no political affiliation - the recommendations Remain United will make are based on robust polling and… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any… — Eduardo Paes 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
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
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
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
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