Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Of course, Republicans still can't believe that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. But then Democrats can't believe that Sarah Palin… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens,… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“In a fearful, eroding democracy, it remains to be seen whether art continues to be free to act in the public sphere… — Gregory Sholette Copy Share Image
I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
Democrats need to stand strong against any efforts to cut benefits to Social Security and Medicare. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Before it was emails, it was Benghazi, and the Republicans were stirring up so much controversy about that. And I testified for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy .… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy. — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish. — David Hogg Copy Share Image
Who should regulate the media? Who should control the press? The commentariat agonises, as if the choice was between state control through… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
When courts rule in our country, we have them as the final arbiter on matters in which we might not agree on.… — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image