Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed.” — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In a democracy, if a government creates bad policies, it can be voted out of office. Competition in the private sector, however,… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
In terms of our democracy, we are sort of shrugging our shoulders and saying, oh dear, Guantánamo, that's so awful, that's so… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
A system of checks and balances sits at the core of our Constitutional Republic, and few institutions engage in this critical duty… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
Donald Trump - whatever he was warning the Democrats, whatever he's warning African-Americans about - he wasn't criticizing them. He was criticizing… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The idea is not to get to a conclusion if the Democrats and the media have their way. Now, arguing against -… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I was like, Then what is it? A republic. It’s a republic. Why? Because we elect people to vote for us. That’s… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Love of democracy can be likened to a mother's love for her son.It must be cherished,nurtured and protected for all of time” — J R Ortiz Copy Share Image
“America needs a pure democracy; absolutely free of both communism and capitalism” — Leland Lewis Copy Share Image
All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition. — Georges Pompidou Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely confident that the actions we took in Iraq are influencing reformers and freedom lovers in the greater Middle East. And… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest. — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do still think there is a big disconnect between Republicans in Washington, D.C., and Republicans everywhere I go. When you start… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
“Like biblical literalists, Republicans assert that the Constitution is divinely inspired and inerrant. But also like biblical literalists, they are strangely selective… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
You know, the fact is that if we haven't got democracy, we have dictatorship. That is never the answer. — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints… — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change. — Ed Case Copy Share Image
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Wait till Buzz takes charge of us. A real Fascist dictatorship!" "Nonsense! Nonsense!" snorted Tasbrough. "That couldn't happen here in America, not… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The right procedure: You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Turkey and Brazil, though half a world apart geographically, have much in common. Both are large countries that spent long years under… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
