Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them. — George Hearst Copy Share Image
The coronavirus does not differentiate between Republicans and Democrats. — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes. — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
Human beings do want peace, stability and harmony and that comes through democracy. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
A Hillary Clinton presidency would have represented an important step away from the country's lagging acceptance of women as powerful, full participants… — Mel Robbins Copy Share Image
We talk about federalism as 50 cauldrons of democracy but think it is really 50 platforms in the nation and each state… — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
I'm amazed at the Democrats and the media who do not know what's going on in my world. I know what's going… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think he [Vaclav Havel] is one of the great figures of the 20th century. He is one of the people that… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Syrian people have right to fight for democracy and freedom in their country but they don't need the penetration of foreign elements,… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
The American people and the Israeli peoples share a faith in the future and believe that democracies can shape their own destinies… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
For the first stage of his dictatorship, Vladimir Putin was involved in destroying public space. On the first day he was in… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“We live in what is called a democracy, rule by the majority of the people. A fine ideal if it could be… — Raymond Chandler 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
A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“he would say impossible, but elections are rife with unexpected events—” — Malka Ann Older Copy Share Image
Mob rule is always extremely dangerous for the future of democracy. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
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