Democracy Quotes · Page 391

The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do…

— Fulton J. Sheen

I feel like there's not as many bands anymore. It's more like there's a front-person and a band supporting them, solo-type spirits…

— Ed Droste

India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and…

— Jamie Dimon

“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that…

— Winston S. Churchill

Republicans are no longer allowed to say that people are rich. You have to refer to them as 'job creator.' You can't…

— Jon Stewart

If Democrats vote against everyone sight unseen, then Republicans will vote for everyone sight unseen. However, if Democrats demonstrate that they’re considering…

— Kevin Drum

“Representative democracy, however, harmonizes marvelously with the capitalist economic system. This new statist system, basing itself on the alleged sovereignty of the…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, social security - hey, how about we privatize privacy! Because if…

— Bill Maher

The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where…

— Sidney Blumenthal

Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy,…

— John F. Kerry

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

— Thomas Paine

“Thus, it is a political axiom that power follows property. But it is now a historical fact that the means of production…

— Aldous Huxley

Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a…

— Jan Koum

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and…

— Narendra Modi

I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors…

— Bill Press

The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's…

— Kumi Naidoo

It is not democracy to send in billions of dollars to push regime change overseas. It isn't democracy to send in the…

— Ron Paul

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is wrong to choose to vote against the For the People Act, a bill that would increase election…

— John Fetterman

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might…

— Noam Chomsky

We obviously - I'm from Michigan, so we saw a disproportionate number of these social media ads targeting us, targeting our population.…

— Elissa Slotkin

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

We are all better off when we raise skills in our state, and I know that Republicans and Democrats are going to…

— Gretchen Whitmer

They [Democrats] don't even want us around.

— Rush Limbaugh

Imagine a country where the majority of the population reaps the majority of the benefits for their hard work, creative ingenuity, and…

— Nomi Prins

I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with…

— Caroline Kennedy