My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
The role of the press and the protections which we afford it are today more important than ever before, because we dwell… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
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“Think this trend is the exclusive doing of the Republicans? Think again. The average income of the top 400 tripled during the… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
Facebook deploys a political advertising sales team, specialized by political party and charged with convincing deep-pocketed politicians that they do have the… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Nowhere else you will find a country of India's diversity, of India's complexity, one billion people trying to seek their social and… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
I'm worried about people who say Bush is lying. It's much more frightening that he's not lying, that he believes what he… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
Do you know the Democrats can't raise a dime? The Democrats' fundraising is practically nonexistent. And on the other side of that,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Certainly from the ????standpoint of a Republican, it’s a winner. Republicans will come out ahead in Pennsylvania in every election. The way… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“[Democracy] is as without plans as it is without energy, as incapable of harm as it is incapable of good. It is… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades… — David Frum Copy Share Image
“No one wants to be poor. In my view, and the view of many authors who have focused on poverty and practical… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
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Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Most of ideologies are not based on the individual - no matter what they say. There are these peoples' democracies, nationalism -… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
“President George Washington’s namesake capital, once a marketplace for slave auctions, is now synonymous with democracy and freedom; so is the iconic… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
A movement election is a different type of election. It's an election where the people start moving into a direction because they… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I had the great honour and privilege of being the first Muslim leader of any western democracy, and yet it is increasingly… — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
I am voting in the midterm elections because I believe that when people engage with their local government, it reminds those placed… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy -… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
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I think every election is sui generis. I think it starts with where we are in the country at this time, with… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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