“A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Pennsylvania is the birthplace of our democracy, and as Governor, I have been focused on advancing real freedom across the Commonwealth. — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
We care about equality and democracy within the band and outside the band. For us life is about cooperation and solidarity, not… — G.W. Sok Copy Share Image
“The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities,… — John Francis Hylan Copy Share Image
I'm old enough to remember when Republicans loved the CBO because it tells the conservatives the thing that matters most to them… — Dana Bash Copy Share Image
I believe that as slow and frustrating as it sometimes is, our democracy, our free press and the rule of law work.… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite,… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
My plea is that if we want to preserve India's diversity, federalism, democracy, secularism, equality, fraternity, state rights, education rights, we must… — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
People tend to favor the underdog, like in the movies we favor the underdog, but when it comes to voting, we vote… — Jon Gnarr Copy Share Image
What does a political revolution look like? It means that 80 percent of the people vote in national elections, not 40 percent.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“A free Republic! How a myth will maintain itself, how it will continue to deceive, to dupe, and blind even the comparatively… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
All of our children should be able to aspire to any office in the land,including head of state.Hereditary power is outdated. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
It's plain that the American right wing, the Republicans and some sections of the Democratic Party, don't really care about international norms.… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies.… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates. — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
If Republicans want to defend the rights of corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited, secret money in campaigns, then they should say… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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