We believe - most polls indicate - a lack of support, a lack of confidence in the ability of the Congress to… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement… — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
Anyone who grew up against the background of the Cold War will recall the downfall of the Berlin Wall and the opening… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining;… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I… — Jonathan Krohn Copy Share Image
If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I think what is being pointed out by African-Americans is that from slavery forward they have been living in a supposed democracy… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In many ways, Trump is both a boon and a bane to Republicans. His insanity and moral decrepitude keep the country focused… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We know better than to think that Republicans can win only on the failures of Democrats. It still comes down to a… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come... Today we are faced with a… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The men and women of our armed forces played an instrumental role in the election process - securing polling sites and providing… — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror - real or fake, provoked or… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else… — Banksy Copy Share Image
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at… — David Frum Copy Share Image
In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional… — Jean Bodin Copy Share Image
The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of… — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
We need the value and the beauty of democracy, and the beauty of pluralism is there's a free exchange of ideas. Nobody… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It is a tenet of representative democracy that MPs are not delegates for their constituents. This means that their decisions and actions… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
I can't think of a single example of two mature democracies going to war with each other in the 20th century. It's… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
We're gonna need more than winning elections; we're gonna need to change the way people think, and they're not gonna change what… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The drama of any election night often obscures the banal reality behind voting. Even when winners and losers are clear, it takes… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC… — Mary Bono Copy Share Image
Black women have been saving this republic since its founding. That was especially so during the Trump era when their turnout helped… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
We need efforts to integrate the nation, not divide it. The 2014 elections is about voting for India. It is to decide… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Voting is a right and a responsibility. Teaching young voters the value of this right and responsibility will show them the power… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
