I think if you do have democracy it would transform the world because if the millions of people who die live on… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Three times before, in the 1850s, the 1890s, and the 1920s, oligarchs took over the American government and threatened to destroy democracy.… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
India's future lies in being an open society, an open polity, a functioning democracy respecting all fundamental human freedoms, accepting the rule… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Many Americans, but Republicans in particular, long opposed the nationalization of industry and state-controlled companies that are more common in Europe. Instead,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Socialisms not a word that I use. I say social democracy because I dont think the government needs to own all the… — David Cunliffe Copy Share Image
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
We as Republicans understand that we have got to protect these... entitlement programs - these entitlement programs for our seniors today. And… — Eric Cantor Copy Share Image
Whatever the Democrats want, yeah, they should get it. We're for it! — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“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
“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The main export of the countries where dictatorship rules is their national leaders. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk… — Femi Kuti Copy Share Image
[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
The Republicans have a very traditional focus over and over again whether or not it's worked. — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Congress, it turns out, is filled with Republicans and Democrats eager to act as enablers for the most repressive forces in Iran. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do. — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
“Apparently while my squad and I were on our way here, skipping through the French countryside, picking daisies, having picnics, and laying… — Robert Rodat Copy Share Image
Islamic laws this is something Americans should look into, maybe not in the near future, but I think people are definitely looking… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans. — Stephanie Miller Copy Share Image
That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“We have no democracy, no constitution no real America if the efficacy and sanctity of the voting process, is not fully and… — Ted Greenfield 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
As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If someone is calling for democracy, he is calling for an end of a dictatorship and if this is the will of… — Zainab al-Khawaja Copy Share Image
Unsettled Middle East, in these times where the people are trying to find their way towards democracy, could be interesting for many… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Obama has offered no solutions; his Democratic majority in the Senate has failed to produce a budget in 1,200 days; and they… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“But there is another way to break a democracy. It is less dramatic but equally destructive. Democracies may die at the hands… — Steven Levitsky Copy Share Image
Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
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