“One of the crucial traits of real leaders in a democracy is the ability to help people become better informed so that… — William W. Lewis Copy Share Image
You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The Republicans won the women's vote in 2010. It was the first time since Ronald Reagan that the Republicans had won the… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
“You need to change hearts and change laws. Although I never imagined running for office myself, I came to see partisan politics… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists… — Jim Talent Copy Share Image
The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. The Republicans believe that the wagon train will… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I think what we need to do is understand our number one obligation is to act in the national interest of the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box,… — Ignatius Donnelly Copy Share Image
there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
In Europe, where the terrorist threat is probably greatest at the moment, the amount of information-sharing that's been taking place, the effectiveness… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Democracy in contemporary society is a fake, predicated on an illusion that we are together making choices about how best to manage… — Ian Parker Copy Share Image
It's plain that the American right wing, the Republicans and some sections of the Democratic Party, don't really care about international norms.… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead,… — Paulina Ochoa Espejo Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The original 'Star Trek' is very much a product of the '60s - the new frontier, optimism, the idea of bringing democracy… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
I registered as a Republican when I was twenty-one. My parents were Republicans. But as I've gotten older I've questioned my whole… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
We're a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“Every period of racial progress in this country is followed by a period of retrenchment. That’s what the election was about. It’s… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a democratic capitalist, although I think the word 'socialism' loses its meaning every time that it is… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Democracy is a bundle of rights and freedoms wrestled from the powerful. Our rulers only surrender their power when compelled to -… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of… — Ahmet Necdet Sezner Copy Share Image
As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I… — Katherine Harris Copy Share Image
I've heard Donald Trump say some pretty unhinged things. I've heard them over and over and over again. But nothing is more… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
We also call upon the king to hand over power to the political parties and for the political parties to shoulder their… — Joseph Adam Ereli Copy Share Image
We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
I think there is not enough understanding of the fact that in a democracy how you treat the security of the minority… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
It was a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word. Anybody could come in and… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that here in South Africa, with all our diversities of colour and race; we will show the world a new… — Albert Lutuli Copy Share Image
