Democracy Quotes · Page 132

Israel is a fellow democracy, a vibrant and dynamic economic partner, and our most important ally in the Middle East.

— Bill Hagerty

There are a lot of problems with democracy. We need to think about how to find the people most qualified for the…

— Frankie Boyle

If mental gymnastics were an Olympic sport, Republicans desperate to defend Trump would all be gold medal contenders.

— Jessica Tarlov

“Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.”

— Gordy Slack

Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos.

— Stephen Colbert

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

— Walter Savage Landor

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

— Mahatma Gandhi

China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We should be supportive of the president and supportive of rights of all in a pluralistic democracy that we're called to love.…

— Otis Moss III

Unfortunately, Republicans repeatedly waste taxpayer time and money, and even shut down the government, in efforts to repeal ACA. We simply cannot…

— Brad Schneider

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But…

— Laurie Garrett

“Democracy is just a process that reflects the morals and ethics of the people who vote. It doesn't guarantee you freedom—just check…

— David Harsanyi

A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form…

— Khaled Hosseini

We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that…

— Margaret Chase Smith

When a political advocacy network hires a former CIA analyst and starts tailing save-our-parks activists, you know there's something terribly dangerous happening…

— David Brock

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are…

— Hillary Clinton

How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the…

— Timothy Zahn

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in…

— Walter Cronkite

The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution,…

— Denis Fahey

If you go against someone, you say, you can't vote for these Democrats, they don't have good values, they're not good people,…

— William J. Clinton

I don’t think God has a gender. I don’t think God hates gays or Democrats, and I don’t think you have to…

— Ellen Hopkins

the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought…

— Marya Mannes

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn…

— Westbrook Pegler

I think Republicans now are recognizing that [Obamacare cancellation] may not be what the American people, including even [Donald] Trump voters, are…

— Barack Obama

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

— Harry Browne

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

— Kal Penn

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

— Walt Disney

Financially supporting the self determination of democracies keeps the U.S. safer and protects the rest of the world.

— Jasmine Crockett

There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that.

— Carles Puigdemont

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing negative about a group of people crying out for democracy - and if my voice counts, I will be…

— Shirin Neshat

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life

— Mikhail Gorbachev

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

— Robert Baer

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

— Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

— Sydney J. Harris

“Food choices are about your future and that of your children. They are about nothing less than democracy in action.”

— Marion Nestle

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

— Abbie Hoffman

If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to own the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.

— Molly Ivins

Democrats and progressives do well when the voter turnout is high. Republicans do well when the voter turnout is low.

— Bernie Sanders