“Voting isn’t the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still,” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing. — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage (From LONE WOLF, p.50)” — Len Webster Copy Share Image
Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves. — Henry Campbell-Bannerman Copy Share Image
Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I am happy in Bollywood, but I am contesting elections to solve problems of people, as they have trust in me. — Rakhi Sawant Copy Share Image
When you lose an election, you don't blink, you don't turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
'Chinese Democracy' wasn't trying to tell China to have a democracy or anything like that. I don't have an opinion on what… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Whether it is access to voting rights, representation in government, or the outsized influence of money in our political system, the opportunity… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am the Doctor of Democracy. I am America's Truth Detector. And as the Doctor of Democracy, the deal you have with… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be… — Jiang Zemin Copy Share Image
Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been… — F. William Engdahl Copy Share Image
“Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders—presidents or prime ministers who subvert the very process that… — Steven Levitsky Copy Share Image
“Now I've been criticized for advocating that people push their boundaries because sometimes people get caught. Sometimes people get fired. Sometimes people… — Myles Horton Copy Share Image
“It is particularly important to note that, in a democracy, education has never been concerned only with supplying the needs of the… — Gaby Weiner Copy Share Image
The #MeToo movement doesn't belong to Republicans or the Democrats. The #MeToo movement belongs to women who are having the courage to… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's time to start examining countries that have made democracy work while still having some kind of the same relationship in… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a pretty word. Democracy is a captivating magic. The oppressed classes always wanted and the oppressing ones always promised a… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and… — Elizabeth Grace Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm one of these people that, once you have had your election and you have elected your candidate, let's see what actually… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad… — Mike Lowry Copy Share Image
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
You can't go do the Green New Deal, but Republicans can't just criticize the ideas of Democrats without proposing an alternative. — Matt Gaetz Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
