I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in…

The first lesson of politics or, at least, democracy is that it is a government by the people and for the people, isn't it?…

— Urmila Matondkar

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people…

— David R. Brower

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

— George Will

I only became involved in politics when democracy returned to Bolivia. Then, unluckily in democracy, we ran into the inheritance of 20 years of…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

You can separate corruption from politics only when democracy becomes government of the people, for the people and by the people.

— Vikrant Parsai

I don't want to get involved in Australian politics. You are a democracy, and Australian people should decide who they will vote for and…

— Geert Wilders

Nobody who's thought about politics or democracy over the thousands of years that people have been thinking about democracy hasn't come up against the…

— Howard Jacobson

I don't know how we continue to do politics in a democracy if we simply can't listen to one another, if we simply close…

— George Packer

Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a…

— Arthur Miller

“In politics democracy itself is at stake in this world of high-speed always-on news. Political reporters pronounce sudden verdicts upon the politicians they often…

— Ian Hargreaves

“International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in…

— Anonymous

The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen…

— Joel Salatin

Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme…

— Benjamin Zablocki

I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in…

— Ian Mcewan