Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life… — Ela Bhatt Copy Share Image
Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
Our democracy depends on a free and independent press. When politicians call reporting they don't like 'fake news,' they undermine trust in… — Tina Smith Copy Share Image
Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Some who call themselves realists question whether the spread of democracy in the Middle East should be any concern of ours. But… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Violence, with its ever-present economy of uncertainty, fear, and terror, is no longer merely a side effect of police brutality, war, or… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
I think that the Republicans who have been cautious, recognizing that they have to be concerned about their re-elections, etc., they won't… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
“Historically, it is traditional and habitual for us to be inadequately prepared. This is the combined result of a number factors, the… — Ernest King Copy Share Image
“Democracies, as we know, are prone to every error from incompetence and corruption to misguided fetishes and gridlock. Therefore, it is astonishing,… — Madeleine K. Albright Copy Share Image
Republicans lost control of Congress because they strayed from the core conservative values that put them into the majority in 1994. If… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
Part of the problem is that we don't have enough Democrats that will actually stand toe-to-toe with this bully Donald Trump and… — Michael Avenatti Copy Share Image
A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Democracy means that if this man,you Miss and I will be trapped on an island, we having a majority of votes will… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
If questioning the results of a presidential election were a crime, as many have asserted in the wake of the controversial 2020… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
We are going to the Overman, but the Overman is not the goal, because as we become Him, we go to the… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Republicans want to use Obamacare in the 2014 elections against Democrats who voted for it. They want to see it fail, even… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
If election is your goal, you're never going to engage in reform. Reform has to be your goal. Election is the means.… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
A lot of times, with campaigns or parties, things are cyclical. We need a long-term strategy on how we continue to engage… — Ronna McDaniel Copy Share Image
...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting.… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
Republicans woke up Sunday with an undeniable reality. Donald Trump's the clear front-runner now for their party's nomination. Trump, celebrated, of course,… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“The opportunities of the coming years should be seized; for issues like climate and debt, the elections of the coming years may… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged… — David Brock Copy Share Image
Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it.… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy ... not for the real… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image