...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections. — Bruce Fein Copy Share Image
No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“As I saw it, we had three Democratic parties: the party of Barack Obama, the party of Hillary Clinton, and this weak… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony… — Ann McLane Kuster Copy Share Image
Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for… — Beth Simone Noveck Copy Share Image
I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the… — Jeff Melvoin Copy Share Image
And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
I believe that we're in an ideological struggle; I believe the only way to marginalize those who murder the innocent, to achieve… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I'm amazed at the Democrats and the media who do not know what's going on in my world. I know what's going… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I do say, that the parties [both Democrats and Republicans] are the same. But rather that the differences are not great enough… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“Under its sway the transactions of the public administration are not nearly so important as what is done by private exertion. Democracy… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
I fundamentally agree with the critical nature of Israeli democracy, which embraces the core notion of free speech. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Aristocracy of the soul cannot be denied because of the blind equality. We can get lost due to ideas about equality. If… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
What's very interesting about the violence in Lebanon and the violence in Iraq and the violence in Gaza is this: These are… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try… — Poul Henningsen Copy Share Image
We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in… — Joachim Gauck Copy Share Image
History tells us fascists, who construed the silence of people as fear, ultimately fell. People who vote for democracy is its armour… — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
I think the challenge of climate change in particular is the challenge for us to create and produce new norms for a… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the… — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Christians living in a democracy should always vote if they can. If they cannot in conscience bring themselves to vote for any… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities. — Florence King Copy Share Image