“A politician often uses an example or analogy as an attempt to make us forget the question he or she is supposedly… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found… — Adhir Kalyan Copy Share Image
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity… — Allen West Copy Share Image
These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections… — Brian Stelter Copy Share Image
If we're not there making the argument then the cultural gulf that Republicans try to exploit saying, "Ah, these city slickers: they're… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
By reducing the influence of big money in politics and making voting as accessible as possible we are raising the voices of… — Colin Allred Copy Share Image
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Everything [Ronald Reagan] got, the tax cuts, he had Democrats outnumbering him in the House and Senate everywhere. There were certain realities… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a treasure which no one will ever discover by deliberate search. But in continuing our search, in laboring indefatigably to… — Christopher L. Hayes Copy Share Image
I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And… — Larry Diamond Copy Share Image
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged… — David Brock Copy Share Image
I'm going to work with Republicans when they do things I agree with and I'm going to fight Republicans when they're doing… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
The people that can't win elections, outside of Barack Obama, the people on the Democrat side who cannot win elections, who do… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Kenya DOES NOT belong to 2 tribes only. Kenya has 42 tribes. to say that the decision of 2 tribes is the… — Akuku Mach Pep Copy Share Image
Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about. — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.” — Henry A. Giroux Copy Share Image