You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
In order for Republicans... to grow its ranks, it must reflect America. — Ryan Frazier Copy Share Image
I always wonder why Republicans hate gay marriage, because they certainly don't hate gay prostitutes. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party. — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Democrats, you know, want to identify with and relate to what you're feeling, what you've been bummed out about, where your head… — Martin Nolan Copy Share Image
The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have… — Avi Rubin Copy Share Image
Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
We are European citizens, as we are European citizens it means what we want to do is exactly like Scotland or Quebec.… — Jordi Cuixart Copy Share Image
We say yes to the society of solidarity and democracy where free people together, in mutual respect and under mutual responsibility, shape… — Olof Palme Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of Democrats that would favor reducing the corporate tax rate as long as we find a way… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
Democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch,… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
'Elections have consequences,' President Obama said, setting his new policy agenda just three days after taking office in 2009. Three elections later,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
“This, then, is the dread that seems to lie beneath the fear of equalizing. Equity is seen as dispossession. Local autonomy is… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“What if freedom were the ability to make up our minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with whom we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Herman Cain is probably well-liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party, conservative movement… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy.… — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is]… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think Democrats do a lot to talk the talk and don't do a lot to walk the walk on wage gap.… — Katie Walsh Copy Share Image
In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes. — Katsuya Okada Copy Share Image
Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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