Democracy Quotes · Page 425

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

— Jimmy Carter

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

— George H. W. Bush

Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

The Supreme Court of the United States is too important to our democracy for it to be understaffed for partisan reasons.

— Patrick Leahy

They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.

— Kevin Drum

The only tool the Democrats have is in the Senate, and it's the filibuster.

— Rush Limbaugh

India is the world's largest democracy and everyone should have a right to voice their opinions.

— Mehbooba Mufti

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of…

— Joichi Ito

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era.…

— Sigmar Gabriel

Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we…

— Jason Kander

I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of…

— Juan Manuel Santos

In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

For me, sacrificing Israeli democracy is not something I can agree to.

— Benny Gantz

I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And…

— Rand Paul

Republicans can't always agree on where to cut spending. They certainly can't agree on what to do about entitlements. There isn't a…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I…

— Katherine Harris

The Trump administration always says it wants to correct Obama's mistakes. It should add his mishandling of Arab democracy to its list.

— Jamal Khashoggi

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

— John Negroponte

Any country is either becoming more democratic or less democratic. I think the United States hasn't tended to its journey toward democracy…

— Masha Gessen

More dangerous than voting for change... is that people no longer vote because they have lost trust not only in governments but…

— Jose Angel Gurria

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

— Robert A. Dahl

Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care,…

— Ai-jen Poo

Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence…

— Thom Tillis

I'm going to try and make people realize that in order to live the life they are living, they need to have…

— Elijah Cummings

Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas…

— Anonymous