Every re-election campaign is a referendum on the incumbent. Every. Single. One. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books . Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I hope March is a guide for today's activists. It took raw courage for young people to volunteer to go to Mississippi… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
We make artificial divisions everywhere: Democrats and Republicans, black and white, millennials and baby boomers. Even those of us who are against… — Robert J. Waldinger Copy Share Image
As you know, in this democracy, in order to have a healthy democracy, we have to get to the common good. But… — Matthew Dowd Copy Share Image
You know, the Chinese don't have a democracy, they don't share our values. — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
A big part of my book deals with the caliber of journalism. Our journalism in general is deplorable, and on elections in… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If you say in advance there is going to be a main candidate and then that doesn't count later, then that's going… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
“Democracy is like a great play. It lasts more than one act. You must be patient,” — Michael Dobbs Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
“If the distribution of power among the several parts of the State is the most efficient restraint on monarchy, the distribution of… — Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
Everything has been for the [President] election for the last couple of months. Since the Democratic National Convention, it's been a dead… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I believe elitism in politics is over, and a new path to achieving democracy should be charted by young people who have… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life.… — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
Many Americans do not realize that we could institute proportional representation for most elections in the U.S. without amending the Constitution. In… — John Anderson Copy Share Image
The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government. — Peter Camejo Copy Share Image
Since Day 1 of his candidacy, Donald Trump has divided our country and threatened our democracy, attacked the middle class and alienated… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, Republicans are too often tone-deaf to the concerns of black Americans. — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To pretend that former President Donald Trump's Republican Party will act in good faith to preserve democracy is naive. — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
Women should not be penalized for being women. Equally, men should not be penalized for being men. I fear that in overly… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I happen to love America. I love this freedom and democracy. The fact is we are the ones who killed innocent people,… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
“The rights and liberties represented by democracy, many agreed, were losing ground across the globe to restrictions imposed by authoritarian autocracy… It… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The Republicans have been baying at the moon for seven years, in March it was seven years since the president signed the… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it -… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Japan and the U.S. are allies that share universal values such as liberty and democracy. We'd like to work together with the… — Yoshihide Suga Copy Share Image
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
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