“A politician who brings personal integrity into leadership helps us reclaim the popular trust that distinguishes true democracy from its cheap imitations.” — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and… — Emanuel Cleaver Copy Share Image
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Manafort’s ouster extinguished the last vestige of hope for Republicans praying that Trump would at last pivot to a more statesmanlike approach.… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but… — Pericles Copy Share Image
As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There are degrees of incompatibility, and there are more factors relevant to upholding democracy and human rights than the operation of neoliberal… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The big news is the midterm elections. Last night Republicans picked up a dozen seats in the House to give them their… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
“Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Elections are based on competing arguments. Of course, issues are integral to those arguments - the very building blocks of them. But… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
You asked me about Queensland in particular and regional Queensland where our message of jobs and growth is resonating strongly because that's… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
This election [in 2016] is about electing a president that will restore our economic vibrancy so that the American dream can expand… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
For more than a decade after the 2000 election, leading Democrats ran from their gun control past and bent over backward to… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
[In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
As conservatives, as Republicans, we keep winning elections. We got a Republican House, we've got a Republican Senate, and we don't have… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Democrats and Republicans agree on most of a unified, politically viable, and workable immigration reform package. Both parties agree that border security… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to… — Sebastian Pinera Copy Share Image
The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people's minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
The Democratic political juggernaut that emerged from the Depression and the New Deal meant that Republicans had to scramble to figure out… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You have to understand that Republicans are on lockstep on one issue. They will not raise taxes. Democrats are in lockstep on… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
As politics is not subtraction but addition, those who share views and ideas need to join forces and they have to cooperate… — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
![“It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.” quote by Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/521/ronald-reagan-119_ashes_it-is-the-soviet-union-that-runs-against_2608693.jpg)
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![“[In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/bcf/james-madison-373_cases_in-a-democracy-a-common-passion-or-inter_2143957.jpg)
