If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy. — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
U.S. lawmakers should take a firm and principled stand consistent with their rhetoric about the importance of human rights and democracy in… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Look at the plight of a devotee. One cannot even use the name of his favourite God. What sort of democracy is… — Suresh Gopi Copy Share Image
The root of democracy is in mass education. This foundation becomes stronger, when the citizens of tomorrow, our children are also educated… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
Most people that I know don believe that a handful of corporations request sit together without disclosure, by the way, and pump… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I am under no illusion that amending the Voting Rights Act in Congress will be easy, but with bipartisan calls for legislation… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein... Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak]… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Like Israel, the U.K. is a democracy, and like Israel, we would never want to muzzle political voices, whatever their opinions -… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I call on Democrats to use their leverage to fight for a clean DREAM Act and to reject Trump's racist agenda -… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system that is corrupt, that we must create an economy that works for… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“If we reject, as we must, the doctrine that the majority is always right, to submit moral issues to the vote is… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 =… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Britain's place in the world is one uniquely suited to thriving in the complex new reality of global politics. We are a… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
“I had been born into a sort of democracy in which for ten years Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif kept replacing each… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973. These… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
“Democratic transitions do not succeed suddenly, and, conversely, they do not fail in one moment either. There are, in retrospect, important inflection… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image