Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation?… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
Here's the real thing. Democrats got to understand that the first line in the Republican playbook is going to be smear, you… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
Did you hear what the Republicans have said about Hillary Clinton? They say she's too angry to be president. Hillary Clinton, Senator… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The notion that you can duff up a country for three months, pacify it for a bit longer and then miraculously transform… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
My critics always forget to mention that I was democratically elected, the others were not. Everyone in Uganda can challenge me, everyone… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
We're Catholics before we're Democrats. We're Catholics before we're Republicans. We're even Catholics before we're Americans, because we know that God has… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
I've had opportunities before to run for office - the Republicans recruited me when I was surgeon general, to run for Congress,… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
We know that when people are civically engaged, when they understand what their rights are, when they understand that in a democracy… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and… — Ed Rollins Copy Share Image
The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Republicans, as well as Democrats committed to our constitutional framework, should fearlessly marshal the administration’s frauds, obstructions, and violations of law. They… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Working on behalf of the common good is the engine of democracy, vital to our communities, cities, states—and, ultimately, the nation. It… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
In 2012, those French Muslim people voted massively for Francois Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy. With the results of elections getting even tighter,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
Let me put it very plainly, if we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Remember, the Democrats want illegal migrants as voters. The Democrats need a permanent underclass. Donald Trump is looking at all of this.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent allied with Democrats, has championed Medicare for All, which would give every American coverage through the… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory,… — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
What we ended up with, from Bill Clinton onward, is a status quo party and an 'undo the system' party, where the… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say… — George Aiken Copy Share Image
“If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to make political rights 'real' and keep… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Hillary [Clinton] wins and the Republicans are gonna quickly be irrelevant. She's gonna get her Supreme Court nominee. She's gonna open the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Across the country, Republican politicians have used the threat of voter fraud and the promise of 'election integrity' to justify new barriers… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The presidential campaign was oriented toward the way we elect the presidency, Electoral College, not the popular vote. The popular vote doesn't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves… — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: My purpose is not to put Congress in charge of state elections. That's the opposite of what I… — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve… — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
The Republicans want to take us forward to the dark ages again ... when women were property that you could easily control,… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“there are two distinct viewpoints in every republic: that of the populace and that of the elite. All the laws made in… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“DEMOCRACY is a form of leading state in which the right and power" must be in the hands of the people and… — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
If a bunch of Republicans are too stiff- necked, too proud, or in some cases too committed to the old order, after… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image