There is no democrats or republicans, right or left, red state or blue state. We are all one. And we are all… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
I took a lot of heat from Republicans when I stepped out of John McCain's campaign after the 2008 primaries. I still… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That is how democracies work. They're… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics.… — Bidzina Ivanishvili Copy Share Image
I'm from Dominican republic and I always try to be but not always we can try to be our country. — Angelica Gonell Copy Share Image
The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think… — Peter Camejo Copy Share Image
The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights. — Amrita Rao Copy Share Image
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Elections are based on competing arguments. Of course, issues are integral to those arguments - the very building blocks of them. But… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
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Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people… — Kenan Evren Copy Share Image
We think the Republicans are the ones who started this fundamentalist religion claptrap, you know? It was Jimmy Carter. He's the one… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
“The opportunities of the coming years should be seized; for issues like climate and debt, the elections of the coming years may… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
Collectively, we must find points of leverage in order to convince China to improve their treatment of Uighurs, Tibetans, and other minority… — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
But rather than trying to understand and rise above them, as leaders should, the [presedential] campaigns have often simply channeled these negative… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of… — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror. — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's devastating. His policies and his presidency are devastating. But I have this confidence that he's not gonna succeed in total… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We live in a democracy. We don't have to tell the people how to vote. — Norman Braman Copy Share Image
Iraq is not only fighting to defend itself, but also to defend all countries of the world, especially as these foreign fighters… — Ibrahim al-Jaafari Copy Share Image
When Republicans say they want to run government 'like a business,' they apparently mean 'run government like a Trump casino headed straight… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
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I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every election cycle there has been some manoeuvre against me, so at some level I am used to it. — Sam Gyimah Copy Share Image
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This is essential that we have a resurgence in democratic participation. And I don't mean big-D Democrat, I mean small-D democrat. I… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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