A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
We're looking at all forms of election irregularities, voter fraud, voter registration fraud, voter intimidation, suppression, and looking at the vulnerabilities of… — Kris Kobach Copy Share Image
Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“In the United States, the two-party system works as a way to manufacture an artificial group identity, akin to an ethnic or… — Jason F. Stanley Copy Share Image
“NORQUIST: Republicans and Democrats Agree We Need to Fix the Prison Problem” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
Pakistan is, I always feel, hopeful. You know, our system of government is not, and the system of foreign policy whereby we… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One thing that is great about India is the freedom to speak and the spaces available in our democracy to protest which… — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I believe - because energy is so central to our lives - that a common global project to rewire the world… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to… — Sebastian Pinera Copy Share Image
Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens,… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“In a fearful, eroding democracy, it remains to be seen whether art continues to be free to act in the public sphere… — Gregory Sholette Copy Share Image
I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
Democrats need to stand strong against any efforts to cut benefits to Social Security and Medicare. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Before it was emails, it was Benghazi, and the Republicans were stirring up so much controversy about that. And I testified for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy .… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy. — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish. — David Hogg Copy Share Image
Who should regulate the media? Who should control the press? The commentariat agonises, as if the choice was between state control through… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
When courts rule in our country, we have them as the final arbiter on matters in which we might not agree on.… — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image