Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
Most people that I know don believe that a handful of corporations request sit together without disclosure, by the way, and pump… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I am under no illusion that amending the Voting Rights Act in Congress will be easy, but with bipartisan calls for legislation… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein... Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak]… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Like Israel, the U.K. is a democracy, and like Israel, we would never want to muzzle political voices, whatever their opinions -… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I call on Democrats to use their leverage to fight for a clean DREAM Act and to reject Trump's racist agenda -… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system that is corrupt, that we must create an economy that works for… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“If we reject, as we must, the doctrine that the majority is always right, to submit moral issues to the vote is… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 =… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Britain's place in the world is one uniquely suited to thriving in the complex new reality of global politics. We are a… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
“I had been born into a sort of democracy in which for ten years Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif kept replacing each… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973. These… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
“Democratic transitions do not succeed suddenly, and, conversely, they do not fail in one moment either. There are, in retrospect, important inflection… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The Democrats have made the low-information voters think they care about 'em. And the worst thing you can do is invest in… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“The modern left proves how prescient the Framers were. The left’s class warfare strategies mean that election campaigns are actually conducted against… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
Democrats justify anything they do against Trump as being righteous, even if it's morally wrong or even if it's illegal, because they're… — Matt Gaetz Copy Share Image
As Democrats and progressives look to the future, we should remember our most essential values. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
“democracy is not simply order and rationality displayed in voting, structured decision making, and legislating, but that it also and necessarily is… — Carl DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“Democracy is popular because of the illusion of choice and participation it provides, but when you live in a society in which… — Gavin Nascimento Copy Share Image
If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
This democracy is not by the people, of the people, for the people. This democracy is about by the party high command,… — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18. — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image