Democracy Quotes · Page 33

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We want enthusiastic Democrats, not cranky ones.

— Jessica Tarlov

“tradition is only democracy extended through time.”

— G.K. Chesterton

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

— Calvin Coolidge

Watching INDEPENDENCE DAY on republic day.

— Bhat Vicky

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

— Chen Shui-bian

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

— Bruce Springsteen

Assembly elections are fought on issues related to the particular State.

— M. K. Stalin

“campaign politicians not only fake leadership but also create dictatorship in the plebiscitary settings of audience democracy.”

— Anonymous

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

— Julian Castro

Republicans need to get honest about confronting climate, but Democrats need to get honest about energy.

— John Fetterman

The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.

— Chrystia Freeland

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

— David Frum

Democracy demands sacrifice. Democracy demands that the rules of the game be respected just as the constitution requires.

— Jovenel Moise

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

— Cullen Hightower

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought,…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free…

— John Kennedy

What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the…

— Art Spiegelman

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

You are sitting here defending an assault on American democracy. Somebody probably said nice things about anybody at a given point. This…

— James Carville

In policy arena after policy arena, Democrats respond to every failure of clunky government by proposing the addition of still more layers…

— Ben Sasse

I mean, this is a group [Republicans], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand…

— Mark Shields

That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of…

— Joe Klein

America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America…

— Trevor Noah

If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like…

— Gloria Steinem

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear…

— David Graeber

There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At…

— John McCain

Rulers like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser started subsidizing bread as a way to buy loyalty, or at least obedience, and this system…

— Annia Ciezadlo

If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would…

— Howard Zinn

“On Individualism: "Because I say Republicans are stupid, and hold that liberty, equality, and fraternity are exploded bubbles, does not make me…

— Jack London

“No, democracy is not identical with the subordination of the minority to the majority. Democracy is a state which recogizes the subordination…

— Vlad Lenin

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

— Bill Moyers

“This is a micro-democracy, not a representative dictatorship.”

— Malka Ann Older

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

— Mitch McConnell

I was a chairwoman of my state Democratic party.

— Deb Haaland

Democracy is not a commodity for import and export.

— Prince Hassan bin Talal

The Democrats do not like free speech. And that's not an exaggeration.

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm concerned about the integrity of American elections.

— Charlie Kirk