Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Ranked Choice Voting is simple, empowers voters, and rewards candidates who broaden support beyond their base. — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
A lot of times, elections are lost, and the hope of the public is lost because they don't turn out. — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own. — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy. I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights, and I… — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
Our Declaration of Independence declares that democracies derive their power from the 'consent of the governed.' But this democracy will fail if… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
We understand that a thriving democracy would not be achieved if the people were still uneducated, and that, to educate them, the… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
There was the slow discovery for me in the early '80s that Republicans are people too... That Republicans are perfectly reasonable people...… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“[P]eople only make decisions based on what they know. You can have everyone in the country vote freely and democratically and still… — Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
“The Google and Facebook algorithms not only know exactly how you feel, they also know myriad other things about you that you… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote.… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the… — Ben Manski Copy Share Image
Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
The Democrats say the rich are rich because they stole all of their money or somehow fleeced the poor for all of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own. — William Greider Copy Share Image
“democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion” — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image