Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race. — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Republicans need to speak up, and people need to know that not all Republicans are represented by the hostile, vile voice of… — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
As a Marine officer, I defended our democracy from foreign enemies. As a Member of Congress, I am solemnly resolved to defend… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The Democrats need to govern for all Americans as well as deliver for their core constituencies. It will be difficult for them… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I am going to continue to fight for our democracy, for representation, for justice and equality and making the world a better… — Katie Hill Copy Share Image
We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
“I’m very careful with political statements. When I bash the Republicans, I know I’ll piss off about half the people. That’s why… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
This country has attained 'Swarajya', but unfortunately the dream of 'Surajya' is left unfulfilled. Today, if there is any major challenge before… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud.… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The national unity of a free people depends upon a sufficiently even balance of political power to make it impracticable for the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I don't support or unsupport Assange. If the Democrats had the proper defensive devices on their internet, equipment, they wouldn't even allow… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“In national politics, where you are one of some twenty million voters, your influence is infinitesimal unless you are exceptional or occupy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual welfare… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy .… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I would say that the people, largely, who I met were Democrats. But really it's what - people want to change the… — Jonathan Tasini Copy Share Image
Get ready; if the Democrats take the House, your taxes are going up. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
What's important here is that the Republicans agree with [Donald Trump]. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image