We need to do everything in our power to assure the American people that the election system is secured and that outside… — Jeff Van Drew Copy Share Image
“But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In short, Republicans under Trump have finally destroyed the New Deal, turning the government over to a small cadre of wealthy businessmen,… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Republicans are so taken by and loyal to Trump that they will believe and do anything he says. — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
“The war is not between Republicans and Democrats or between conservatives and progressives. The war is between the frightened and what they… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white,… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism...… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I… — David Dixon Copy Share Image
The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush,… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The problem with Republicans and Conservatives is we attack each other. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I feel like there's not as many bands anymore. It's more like there's a front-person and a band supporting them, solo-type spirits… — Ed Droste Copy Share Image
India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
Republicans are no longer allowed to say that people are rich. You have to refer to them as 'job creator.' You can't… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
If Democrats vote against everyone sight unseen, then Republicans will vote for everyone sight unseen. However, if Democrats demonstrate that they’re considering… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
“Representative democracy, however, harmonizes marvelously with the capitalist economic system. This new statist system, basing itself on the alleged sovereignty of the… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, social security - hey, how about we privatize privacy! Because if… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy,… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image