“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when democracy has to fight with autocracy, what can be done? We have to fight; somebody has to. — Mamata Banerjee Copy Share Image
I've criticized Republicans for their lack of fiscal discipline when they controlled Congress before 2007. However, that is no excuse to just… — Erik Paulsen Copy Share Image
In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it. — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
There is nothing more important than preserving the integrity of our election system. — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Let's go back to the beginning of the Obama administration, when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama led NATO in toppling the government… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I think that the influence of people with power and money to distort democracy and have their interests served before the rest… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'. — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building — John Adams Copy Share Image
Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Elections, in India, are 'over to the people' time. And it is probably the one time in their lives when politicians, and… — N. Bhaskara Rao Copy Share Image
I think there was something started under my father that I appreciate that it's time to end, and I like the symmetry… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of… — Girma Woldegiorgis Copy Share Image
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, and as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
It should come as no surprise that Russia continues its effort to manipulate Western democracies in a way to sow discord and… — Tom Cotton Copy Share Image
Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
“Going into the Republican Party National Convention, in all objective truth, our non‑winning front‑runners are the sorriest collection of stuffed shirts, empty… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
Without democracy, we are voiceless subjects. But with it, we are citizens armed with the power to change our destinies. — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Mob rule is always extremely dangerous for the future of democracy. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's… — Stephen Hadley 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
The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think the democratic movement will be repressed for now, only to erupt again somewhere down the line.And more blood will be… — Nien Cheng Copy Share Image
There's an interesting question about the Republicans that are interested in Big Tech issues. Like, to what degree that's a response to… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
We know that Obama wasn't vetted through the campaign, and now, you know, some things are coming home to roost, if you… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
