Democracy Quotes · Page 99

I am not a pundit or a psephologist and thus not in the business of calling elections.

— Barkha Dutt

Democrats would pull the ladder from aspiring Americans and create a permanent status of government-run mediocrity.

— Bill Hagerty

Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has.

— Mark Shields

I think Republicans so mistrust Barack Obama, that if Barack Obama says Putin is terrible, they will be some Republicans who just…

— David Ignatius

High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy.

— Angus Deaton

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness… are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Oftentimes we go out and vote during the presidential races, but then stay home during the local elections.

— Ashley Biden

We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.

— Barack Obama

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders…

— Barack Obama

The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

As the leader of Southeast Asia's oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we…

— Najib Razak

Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. … What makes me different from the ‘nazis’ are basically three…

— Varg Vikernes

At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet…

— John Redwood

We in the United States are very often - since we are a democracy and we have national interests, we've often made…

— George Soros

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course…

— Vladimir Lenin

Pops added,you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve. And if you do, you never get…

— Anonymous

America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared…

— Henry Giroux

It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so…

— Norman Angell

I think the Democratic electorate is similarly very energized. In both cycles we have new folks coming into the system who had…

— Leah D. Daughtry

Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby…

— Upton Sinclair

When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did…

— Robert Bork

The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats…

— Charles Krauthammer

What's wrong with the world Peter? God, I don't know. Where do you start? People give up. We're defeatists and we stop…

— Jenny Valentine

The only ‘realistic’ prospect is to ground a new political universality by opting for the impossible, fully assuming the place of the…

— Slavoj Žižek

This is a very difficult assignment for the United States, to hang in there and help this young democracy survive.

— George W. Bush

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

— Nigel Farage

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

— Mike Pence

With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a…

— Djemal Pasha

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

— Ronald Reagan

Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.

— Alexander Stille

We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.

— Blase J. Cupich

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right…

— Henry David Thoreau

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the…

— Aristotle

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or…

— Thomas Jefferson

Protesting is a fundamental aspect of our democracy, and I will always encourage this course of action, but it can be intimidating.

— Layla Moran

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

— Bode Miller

“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN”

— Frank I. Luntz

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness…

— Stefan Halper

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

— Arthur Ashe