I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics." Well, you know what, I'm 60 years… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
The tendency among Democrats, especially after a devastating loss, is to come up with either a new individual to lead us, a… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Trump was so different - in a bad way - that I thought the best thing I could do was to resist… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
“We would have fed the world if we hadn't been throwing away food in the gap between the rich and the poor.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
With Netflix, we accept the democracy: not every show needs to be watched by everyone. And let's face it, we don't have… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same… — Winthrop W. Aldrich Copy Share Image
When you violate election law, and you have other bodies or other positions in our governmental apparatus that do not follow the… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs.… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We are living through an epochal shift. If we aren't careful, the elementary foundations of our pluralistic democracy will be threatened. — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Democrats being Democrats, count on those nettlesome conversations about whether Biden will or should run for reelection to reemerge with end-of-the-world urgency. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
We need to defend principles like democracy, freedom of speech, gender equality, and the rule of law through exemplifying these on a… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that in order for our democratic system to work as intended, the average person must have faith in their government.… — Elissa Slotkin Copy Share Image
There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring… — Bobby Ghosh Copy Share Image
The prospect of an Africa dominated by China means that progress in human rights and democracy in the region will stall and… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
I think Sinn Fein remains the greatest threat to our democracy and our prosperity as a state. — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
If you don't understand that calling for violence against your political opponents is unacceptable in a democracy, then you should not be… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“Democracy doesn’t give everything, but it grants the freedom to be yourself and pursue what you need.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
The ideas that accompany that victory, the ideas and the policies that are related to those ideas that are implemented after you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
“politicos all sprung from the seeds of the vast underbelly of an unscrupulous society. Why the voting public never caught onto politicians… — Mark Reps Copy Share Image
Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
“Suppose the elections are free and fair and those elected are racists, fascists, separatists", said the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke about Yugoslavia… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Most African-Americans really do believe that we are voting for our better interest in voting for Democrats. — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
