Democracy Quotes · Page 87

You believe that you can win the nomination of your party, and then you believe that you're the strongest candidate to win…

— Rudy Giuliani

California Democrats - we fight on the front lines - we don't equivocate on the sidelines.

— Kevin de Leon

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

— Eugene McCarthy

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but…

— Michelle Bachelet

Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.

— Martina Navratilova

Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.

— Dennis Prager

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

— William J. Clinton

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period…

— Karl Marx

Donald Trump's talking down our democracy. And I, for one, am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our…

— Hillary Clinton

I don't care if you're a liberal icon or a conservative icon. If you are not willing to be active in your…

— Hillary Clinton

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up…

— Jeffrey Sachs

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life…

— John F. Kennedy

“The litmus test of any democracy is the level of tolerance it is willing to extend towards the minorities living in it.…

— Ilan Pappé

I think it was fully justified after 9/11 to initiate a military action against Afghanistan, because we hoped to create a democracy,…

— Jimmy Carter

Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning…

— Joseph Stalin

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate"…

— Ellen Willis

Our president seems determined to do anything he can with the Russians and the Russians hate - but a report and hates…

— Ralph Peters

Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon…

— Richard John Neuhaus

Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were…

— Nathan Myhrvold

All nations are imagined communities, and our imagined community is based on a uniquely inspiring set of principles. Americans have proved that…

— Anne Applebaum

“The success of totalitarian movements among the masses meant the end of two illusions of democratically ruled countries in general and of…

— Hannah Arendt

[The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism…we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so…

— Michael Steele

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

— Alain Badiou

Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of…

— Reuven Rivlin

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

— Barbara

Elections have been free and fair with full participation of the people, reinforcing that the ballot is mightier than the bullet.

— Anurag Thakur

Democracy is moving forward, sometimes a little bit slowly, but it is moving forward. This is an obvious step, it is an…

— Romano Prodi

We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C.

— David Brock

As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and…

— Manmohan Singh

Secretary of State, maybe they [Republicans] would consider Steve Hadley for that job.

— George Stephanopoulos

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains…

— Thomas Jefferson

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

— Indira Gandhi

I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women's vote will backfire.

— David Brock

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President polarizing after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years…

— Jeffrey C Stewart

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a…

— Rush Limbaugh

I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

— Amartya Sen