Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important… — George Soros Copy Share Image
We are seeing a working-class, a middle class, which over the last three decades has seen their wages and income stagnate, while… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
How is it reasonable that in a country purporting to be a democracy, I am not permitted to speak freely? Why, as… — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Copy Share Image
I would like the refugee crisis to become a new beginning in the Turkish-European relationship. But it would be very problematic if,… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few. — William Eldridge Odom Copy Share Image
I can do an hour-long speech about Democrats taking African Americans for granted, and I'd have a line behind me of very… — Emanuel Cleaver Copy Share Image
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
“The United States of America, as defined in The Constitution thereof, is not a democracy, nor was it ever envisioned as such… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
My own students say they don't trust anyone who voted for Trump. How can you have a democracy with that? — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy. — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
The Democrats do not have their key agenda items do not have massive public support, and their attempts to destroy Donald Trump… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
As Democratic losses mounted in Senate races across the country on election night, some liberal commentators clung to the idea that dissatisfied… — Byron York Copy Share Image
I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
America may be a fallible democracy. But when the president sacrifices the national interest for his personal interest, we can show that… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as… — Alice Tisdale Hobart Copy Share Image
What surprised me was the angst at our democracy. And I understand it - I teach at a university and feel it… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The American Dream is freedom, prosperity, peace-and liberty and justice for all. That's a big dream. It's not always easy to achieve,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Parliament's job is to conduct discussions. But many a time, Parliament is used to ignore issues, and in such situations, obstruction of… — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
Not just for the U.S. Senate but it also means for school board and city council. We need to revitalize American democracy.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
It's hard in all countries. Democracy is hard, but it's better than the alternatives. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
This is, after all, the country that gave the world the rule of law, parliamentary democracy, the right to own property, the… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
“Most of the dictators do allow freedom in the private space. it is their tentacles in the public space that are considered… — R. N. Prasher Copy Share Image