Democracy Quotes · Page 383

The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service.

— Dave Barry

Democracy's got endless problems and faults and dangers, but it's certain the alternatives are not better.

— W. S. Merwin

I have a long, long record of working with Democrats and Republicans alike.

— Mike DeWine

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is…

— Peter Singer

Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.

— Pat Buchanan

If you can stitch together that kind of coalition with young people, bringing together conservatives and evangelicals - and I will tell…

— Ted Cruz

I think the Ukrainians have amazed the world in terms of their ability to fight back, their ability to exercise initiative, their…

— Lloyd Austin

“If left unattended by nonvigilant citizens, the freedoms of democracy can be lost to an all-powerful state, and citizens can become transformed…

— Christine Barbour

When you are in election mode, you are focused only on winning.

— Sushma Swaraj

The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.

— Jill Stein

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

— Sharon Salzberg

“Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.”

— Steven Magee

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

— Ken Livingstone

“It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed.”

— Steve Merrick

My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In a democracy, if a government creates bad policies, it can be voted out of office. Competition in the private sector, however,…

— Richard Thaler

In terms of our democracy, we are sort of shrugging our shoulders and saying, oh dear, Guantánamo, that's so awful, that's so…

— Dar Williams

A system of checks and balances sits at the core of our Constitutional Republic, and few institutions engage in this critical duty…

— Byron Donalds

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too…

— Howard Zinn

Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Donald Trump - whatever he was warning the Democrats, whatever he's warning African-Americans about - he wasn't criticizing them. He was criticizing…

— Rush Limbaugh

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really…

— Condoleezza Rice

The idea is not to get to a conclusion if the Democrats and the media have their way. Now, arguing against -…

— Rush Limbaugh