Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To pretend that former President Donald Trump's Republican Party will act in good faith to preserve democracy is naive. — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
Women should not be penalized for being women. Equally, men should not be penalized for being men. I fear that in overly… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I happen to love America. I love this freedom and democracy. The fact is we are the ones who killed innocent people,… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
“The rights and liberties represented by democracy, many agreed, were losing ground across the globe to restrictions imposed by authoritarian autocracy… It… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The Republicans have been baying at the moon for seven years, in March it was seven years since the president signed the… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it -… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Japan and the U.S. are allies that share universal values such as liberty and democracy. We'd like to work together with the… — Yoshihide Suga Copy Share Image
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“The chance for the people of Scotland to come together and define a new set of rules for how we will run… — Adam Ramsay Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow is the day of the yearly election of the Well-Doer. Tomorrow we shall again hand over to our Well-Doer the keys… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
