Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership. — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether.… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true:… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“New political systems and philosophies were imported into the Near East under the general term democracy and grafted artificially into a society… — Gerald De Gaury Copy Share Image
When Democrats campaign on lowering health care costs, we win elections. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Thackeray is an institution that cannot become irrelevant because of one election. — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Democracy is not always chapter and verse, written out in advance. — Jane O'Meara Sanders Copy Share Image
Republicans will never turn a blind eye to unjust acts, but neither will we accept an all-out assault on Western civilization. — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank,… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Why are you sitting here when our democracy is under assault with the FBI acting at the behest of [Republican Congressman] Jason… — James Carville Copy Share Image
The elections are rigged. It`s a totally rigged system. The only way we can lose, in my opinion. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Brian Kemp and Kris Kobach aren't the only figures subverting democracy to their own ends; they are just the most open and… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
I've said the election of Obama has made the hustler less relevant. People took it in a way that I was almost… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses. — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
The Republican Party stinks because all of the Republicans have accomplished nothing, and they talk about all of these issues and do… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
“he would say impossible, but elections are rife with unexpected events—” — Malka Ann Older Copy Share Image
Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Participate in our democracy. America is a great country. Vote to keep it that way. — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
As the leader of Southeast Asia's oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we… — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
Republicans are living in a hermetically sealed Republican universe, just as Democrats are. And so they're responding to their own universe, even… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
BJP is not going to the people only to form a government. We have come to the people to give stability and… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't… — David Frum Copy Share Image
When human rights came, they saw our jails, they left, and they said: Jails are good. Civilized, in accordance with democratic, because… — Ayatollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
At no time, at no place in solemn convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image