“True democracy speaks; it does not shout. It listens to reason, not the roar of populism.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Conservatives, Republicans have to rebuild public confidence in what we say we are going to do. That is a high hurdle but… — Kori Schake Copy Share Image
The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry. — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law. — John Fund Copy Share Image
Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy. — Anker Jørgensen Copy Share Image
You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Well, I'm like most Americans, we don't vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Republicans want to keep the open Internet safe from big government. Democrats want to keep it safe from big corporations. I say… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I believe - because energy is so central to our lives - that a common global project to rewire the world… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's… — Kevin Yoder Copy Share Image
Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
The Democrats cannot find Romney fingerprints on what's happening to this country. Every fingerprint is Barack Obama's, Joe Biden's, Nancy Pelosi's, Harry… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There's a lot of really wonderful things about the United States of America, especially its ethnic diversity and its mostly successful struggle… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
For the first stage of his dictatorship, Vladimir Putin was involved in destroying public space. On the first day he was in… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“We live in what is called a democracy, rule by the majority of the people. A fine ideal if it could be… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
They believe the less votes the better. Republicans like to suppress votes because they believe they do better in small turnouts. Characteristically,… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image