In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be… — Anand Sharma Copy Share Image
Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch. — Rob Woodall Copy Share Image
As someone who has led his party through two general elections, I have not always been immune from feeling the pressure of… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our… — Richard Shelby Copy Share Image
I believe the Obama administration was asleep at the switch, not paying attention to what NATO and E.U. expansion - and promoting… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There are people working their butts off trying to save our republic and save democracy from the likes of powerful people in… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC… — Mary Bono Copy Share Image
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Whether we're Democrats, Republicans, or independents - it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Democracy is about constant vigilance. It's not straightforward, there will always be setbacks and you get particular be it religious fundamentalists, Christian… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right… — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes,… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged. — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
“Both the Democrats and the Republicans are peddling the exact same deception; and that bill of goods is that the Republicans represent… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
From 2016 through 2020, the easiest way to achieve stardom on the political left was to loudly proclaim your belief that 2016… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
