Diplomats bluster and bluff, but democracies don't really have that many tools they can use to push back, effectively, against the seductive… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left. — Philippe Val Copy Share Image
I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The American people and the Israeli peoples share a faith in the future and believe that democracies can shape their own destinies… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“One by one western democracies were rolled up on German terms; Denmark and Norway in April and the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and… — Matthew A. Rozell Copy Share Image
We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Jews have not only become equal citizens in Western democracies, they have become leading citizens. And, of course, the reestablishment of the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Our Declaration of Independence declares that democracies derive their power from the 'consent of the governed.' But this democracy will fail if… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even… — David Frum Copy Share Image
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope… — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
Where we find young democracies, we need to help them. Where we find the enemy, we need to fight them. And that's… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
India and the United States are the world's two largest democracies, and they are both multicultural democracies to boot. It only makes… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean,… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
“The only democracies left in continental Europe were the tiny neutral states of Sweden and Switzerland, both dependent on German goodwill.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information,… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people.… — Damon Keith Copy Share Image
