Elections are based on competing arguments. Of course, issues are integral to those arguments - the very building blocks of them. But… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people… — Kenan Evren Copy Share Image
We think the Republicans are the ones who started this fundamentalist religion claptrap, you know? It was Jimmy Carter. He's the one… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
“The opportunities of the coming years should be seized; for issues like climate and debt, the elections of the coming years may… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
Collectively, we must find points of leverage in order to convince China to improve their treatment of Uighurs, Tibetans, and other minority… — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
But rather than trying to understand and rise above them, as leaders should, the [presedential] campaigns have often simply channeled these negative… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of… — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror. — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's devastating. His policies and his presidency are devastating. But I have this confidence that he's not gonna succeed in total… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We live in a democracy. We don't have to tell the people how to vote. — Norman Braman Copy Share Image
Iraq is not only fighting to defend itself, but also to defend all countries of the world, especially as these foreign fighters… — Ibrahim al-Jaafari Copy Share Image
When Republicans say they want to run government 'like a business,' they apparently mean 'run government like a Trump casino headed straight… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
“Democracies don't even withstand formally half educated citizens. Courtesy, respect, and sensibility don't tend to ethical sense. Nature nurtures, if compared to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
