democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
In states where Republicans have gerrymandered themselves into nearly impenetrable legislative majorities, they have also taken steps to try to close the… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I've worked in a lot of elections and it can feel like you're fighting a battle. You get into a mindset of… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
The reality is that the Republicans twice had Mitt Romney as a potential nominee. They chose him in 2008 - 2012. In… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“The 1965 Voting Rights Act greatly extended federal power in the United States. A frankly regional measure, it took aim at Deep… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
The Democrats are between a rock and a hard place on it. They hate the Second Amendment. They want to get rid… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“In theory at any rate each militia was a democracy and not a hierarchy . It was understood that orders had to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“I have been watching the Democrats run the USA for four years. The police are still corrupt and incompetent, their ‘green’ energy… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn't elect a king. So… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs.… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call… — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges of democracies today is the question of financing campaigns. It's a tremendous challenge. Obviously I think the… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
I only became involved in politics when democracy returned to Bolivia. Then, unluckily in democracy, we ran into the inheritance of 20… — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
When human rights came, they saw our jails, they left, and they said: Jails are good. Civilized, in accordance with democratic, because… — Ayatollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the… — Eric Cantor Copy Share Image
A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives priviliges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. The jackasses… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Republicans in the South... are trying to find ways, not so much to block black and brown people from voting, but to… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The eradication of the Muslim Brotherhood is nothing less than an abolition of democracy and a guarantee that Arabs will continue living… — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Republicans are living in a hermetically sealed Republican universe, just as Democrats are. And so they're responding to their own universe, even… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The Republicans have lost their standards; they've lost their principles... Really, that's why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
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