“Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers-that-be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We have had political parties threatening to bring down the government, talking about it but not bringing down the government. What I… — James Cleverly Copy Share Image
I don't want to get involved in Australian politics. You are a democracy, and Australian people should decide who they will vote… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
To research my book 'Me the People' - in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States - I… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism,… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The Arab spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence and everybody else wants it. How… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Yet, it was infuriating that for the second time in five elections, a Democrat would win more votes but be robbed by… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
If the widespread attempts to block Brexit gave us a glimpse into how fragile our commitment to democracy had become - reduced… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
“Both Democrats and Republicans have strayed so far from the path of responsible financial policy that the concept of balancing the budget… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
“When we are all guilty, that will be democracy. Not to mention the fact that we must be revenged for having to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
I'm not a college graduate, but I don't know how George W.Bush could have truly believed that the flower of democracy was… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity.… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the… — Friedrich Ratzel Copy Share Image
The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Democrats and Republicans reauthorized the 1965 Voting Rights Act unanimously in 2006. In two rulings since then, the Supreme Court has taken… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place...… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies,… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I can only speak to the Democrat side, but for the Democrats, everything is aggressively measured, and what that means is if… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
Every time a Republican wins the White House, whenever Republicans win control of Congress, the Drive-Bys always claim that the message is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
While the United States is a prime example of fair elections, there is room for improvement, starting with passing voter identification laws… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
Clearly Democrats are not united in what is the critique of what we're doing there and what is the answer to what… — Steve Elmendorf Copy Share Image
“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
“In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It's hurting Democrats if you do really go profoundly negative in the primary. Most of them don't. They actually realize the most… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
I believe that we're in an ideological struggle; I believe the only way to marginalize those who murder the innocent, to achieve… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image