Democracy Quotes · Page 82

Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats.

— Grover Norquist

India is a democratic country & anyone can become a PM.

— Narendra Modi

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

— Allen West

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

— Shimon Peres

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

— Silvan Shalom

Republicans have never been good at public relations.

— Tammy Bruce

Democratic socialists want to control you.

— George Santos

I am actually not that much into voting.

— Brooke Hogan

Bet a lot of Republicans would've preferred a deal that was $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases.

— Anonymous

Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats.

— Richard J. Daley

And turns out, it's not Republicans throwing granny off a cliff... It's the Fed!?

— Neil Cavuto

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

— Democritus

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

— Edmund Burke

The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.

— Monica Crowley

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

— Rand Paul

Thackeray is an institution that cannot become irrelevant because of one election.

— Sharad Pawar

Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going…

— Pat Buchanan

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not…

— J. C. Watts

My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active,…

— Josh Earnest

If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team…

— George H. W. Bush

As a Democrat in a red state, I often spend days among crowds where there are almost no Democratic voters in sight.…

— Steve Bullock

I have one underlying principle in mind: the principle of Muslim democracy. It is my belief that our salvation lies in following…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the…

— Ludwig von Mises

If the Democrats have their way, African Americans will continue to feel oppressed, despised and handicapped into the indefinite future. All progress…

— Mona Charen

The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is…

— C. L. R. James

“Every democracy, whether ochlocracy, aristocracy, oligarchy, monarchy, anarchy, proletarian, popular, or liberal, is by its very nature always a scotocracy, that is,…

— Andrej Poleev

Before I ran for District Attorney, two Republicans invited my husband and me to lunch. And I knew a party-switch was exactly…

— Susana Martinez

When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly…

— Andrew Roberts

American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is…

— Kenny Smith

“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men…

— H.L. Mencken

I see encouraging signs of democracy developing in other places in the Middle East. In Tunisia, in Iraq, and now in Egypt.…

— Bernard Lewis

When people start to complain, "Voting doesn't matter," I'm like, the people of Wisconsin weren't boycotting and hitting the streets and blowing…

— Rosario Dawson

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

— Thomas Jefferson

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

— Bertolt Brecht

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for.

— Howard Dean

We cannot imagine democracies without a vibrant civil society.

— Rohini Nilekani

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

— Joseph Pulitzer

“Journalists must uphold democracy; they are its fourth and last pillar”

— Those Facts

What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?

— Drew Carey

To fight for voting rights is to fight for human rights.

— Raphael Warnock