If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
“The people could still have their republic, but much legislative power would be shifted out of an elected body and into the… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Democrats, Republicans, independents, people across America. If you don't vote for me, I still want to be your president. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“One look at the officials in the American Consulate where we went for dreary paper routines was enough to make you realize… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, it was the Democrats who claimed to be the party of the working man. No longer. They abandoned… — Corey Stewart Copy Share Image
In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
I would recommend any American who wants to understand where the government is going in the next four years of George W.… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!' — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
The Voting Rights Act was a seminal victory for our country and a great healing moment. But there are some who want… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not… — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Communism and fascism were born out of frustration with an establishment that still knew royalty and possessed very few of the characteristics… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We Republicans are going to go forward, and we're going to win. But more importantly, we're going to win for the country.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives. — Craig Benson Copy Share Image
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“All these complexities are lost on many commentators, often the same ones who would single out the Arabs for being Arabs; now… — Jean-Pierre Filiu Copy Share Image
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
As a matter of principle, Republicans do not believe in federal price controls. — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
I'm a lifelong Democrat, but I have supported some Republicans. I'm all about results, man. If somebody can deliver, that's where I'm… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Republicans have, with some pride - George W. Bush won the White House by promising to restore dignity to the Oval… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument;… — Wolfgang Thierse Copy Share Image
Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The 1965 Voting Rights Act greatly extended federal power in the United States. A frankly regional measure, it took aim at Deep… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
RuPaul might not broadcast herself as political, but I think she tries to make moves in American history by catching more flies… — Trixie Mattel Copy Share Image
We should not become so ashamed of the disappointments and travesties of democracy that we become ashamed of the idea itself. It… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values… — Bill Delahunt Copy Share Image
