Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament. — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day. — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings. — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything. — Taki Theodoracopulos Copy Share Image
“In democracy to avoid corruption, we change presidents every eight years. We should change the senators for the same reason” — Beta Metani' Marashi Copy Share Image
Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
When something looks cheap, it looks cheap and that is all, and there is no justification for this cheapness. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Our system has adopted universal suffrage, which points toward open and easy access to the ballot, but our heritage in political exclusivity… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Athletes have the same rights everybody else does. If there is a strength in our democracy, it's that we are encouraged to… — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
The Republic is one and can't be divided: That's the Constitution! It means the Republic can't ground its action on local community… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the Doha Round is the most important thing that we can do to reduce inequalities, create opportunities, and develop… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come... Today we are faced with a… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
In many ways, Trump is both a boon and a bane to Republicans. His insanity and moral decrepitude keep the country focused… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Occupy did something fabulous. What Occupy made clear was that there is an inequality at the heart of American democracy that undermines… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending. — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
“The purpose of politics is to keep voters hopeful so they keep on voting” — Patson Phala Copy Share Image
Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
