Democracy Quotes · Page 139

In schools, churches and local communities, Americans are participating in their democracy by getting others to as well.

— Alex Padilla

Without democracy, we are voiceless subjects. But with it, we are citizens armed with the power to change our destinies.

— Claire Fox

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

— Anonymous

The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either.

— Lewis Black

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

— Walter Ulbricht

The Supreme Court of the United States is too important to our democracy for it to be understaffed for partisan reasons.

— Patrick Leahy

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

— Norman Mailer

“Democrats will get back to obsessing over the “rule of law” if and when Republicans win another presidential election.”

— Andrew McCarthy

Democracy is such a framework that everyone has the right to live their lives, fix their goals, their aims, their dreams and…

— Narendra Modi

I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy…

— Gary Oldman

I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors…

— Bill Press

“The opportunities of the coming years should be seized; for issues like climate and debt, the elections of the coming years may…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people…

— Barbara Boxer

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy…

— Imran Khan

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it -…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power…

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across…

— Colin Powell

Do I think that American democracy ends if Trump is president? No! I think, there are plenty of checks and balances in…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should…

— Kevin Mattson

Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense…

— Ralph Washington Sockman

as a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government.…

— Carl Hiaasen

By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations.... This is the way…

— Newton B. Drury

One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic…

— George Meany

Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.

— Randal Marlin

The Democrats have a plan, their plan is to humiliate and embarrass the Republican voters that supported President Trump.

— Bill Hagerty

Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.

— Hazel Blears

Republic . . . it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose.

— John Wayne

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

— Anonymous

The right to vote is fundamental to citizenship, and Election Day is the most important day of the year to our democracy.

— Dean Phillips

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our…

— John F. Kennedy

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

— Jean Baudrillard

Here in Maine, we know that the system of special interests influencing elections runs contrary to our democratic values.

— Sara Gideon

Israel is a lighthouse and the only democracy in a dark and tyrannical region. It's part of us, of our European identity.

— Geert Wilders

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

— William Beveridge

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our country's democracy is based on free and fair elections, the wisdom of the voters and the peaceful transfer of power.

— Tom Suozzi

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

— Kin Hubbard

Democrats, Republicans, independents, people across America. If you don't vote for me, I still want to be your president.

— Hillary Clinton