Democracy Quotes · Page 239

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

— Thomas Carlyle

I'm happy to work with Democrats. After all, they have to represent their districts just as I have to represent mine.

— David Valadao

The very act of voting is a political act.

— Aparna Sen

This schtick of calling Republicans racist when they do, well, anything is not new.

— Mollie Hemingway

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small…

— Henry A. Wallace

I actually did a quick survey of how caste plays out in contemporary India. The idea that democracy and development have in…

— Arundhati Roy

The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if…

— Thomas Jefferson

The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with…

— Rory Stewart

Election Day now has become the last day to vote.

— Judy Woodruff

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

— Roger Nash Baldwin

Democratic socialism means that our government does everything it can to create a full employment economy.

— Bernie Sanders

The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It…

— Jane Addams

There is greater income inequality in the United States than in any other industrialized country. Yes, the debt is a problem that…

— Jan Schakowsky

There are exceptions of course, like for instance the Baltic States, which are members of the European Union, together with Ukraine and…

— Garry Kasparov

“I kept that Armey-Archer T-shirt so that I could remember a time when Republicans thought about ideas and enjoyed those good-spirited and…

— Jeff Flake

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

— Thurgood Marshall

California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is…

— Fareed Zakaria

There was a time in my life when election year was nothing to me, but in 1912, I joined that great army…

— Margaret Case Harriman

Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I think there are a lot of Republicans who recognize that investment in adolescent girls and empowering them is good for our…

— Jeanne Shaheen

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

No matter who you are, do not be a fanatic. Do not be a fanatic neither religious, nor ideological, nor political, neither…

— Ilkin Santak

I think even Republicans are saying [Andrew] Puzder may have a problem.

— Judy Woodruff

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the…

— Shimon Peres

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

— Leyla Zana

Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society…

— Noam Chomsky

I remember being 18 and being fed up with everything - fed up with society, fed up with the political system, fed…

— Cillian Murphy

The difference between a martyr and a cannon fodder is not far from the difference between a scout and a spy.

— Ilkin Santak

The Republicans released their 'Pledge to America.' It's 21 pages of phony charts and bad ideas. Sarah Palin got a copy, and…

— Bill Maher

Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to…

— Barack Obama

The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service.

— Dave Barry

Democracy's got endless problems and faults and dangers, but it's certain the alternatives are not better.

— W. S. Merwin

I have a long, long record of working with Democrats and Republicans alike.

— Mike DeWine

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is…

— Peter Singer

Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.

— Pat Buchanan

If you can stitch together that kind of coalition with young people, bringing together conservatives and evangelicals - and I will tell…

— Ted Cruz

I think the Ukrainians have amazed the world in terms of their ability to fight back, their ability to exercise initiative, their…

— Lloyd Austin

“If left unattended by nonvigilant citizens, the freedoms of democracy can be lost to an all-powerful state, and citizens can become transformed…

— Christine Barbour

When you are in election mode, you are focused only on winning.

— Sushma Swaraj

The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.

— Jill Stein