I'm skeptical that [the Republicans] can do [something better with healthcare] mainly because for seven years now, including when we first tried… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
“In an absolutism, the autocrat is visible and tangible. The real despotism of republican institutions is far deeper, more insidious, because it… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
“You know you have a transparency problem when citizens of a democracy need to rely on WikiLeaks for details on changes to… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press. — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
I think [Winston] Churchill said it was " [democracy] the worst of all systems except for all the others." And that's probably… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You're not allowed to say anything they don't… — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
The membership survey was a great moment for inner-party democracy. We can't go back, nor do we want to. Our members are… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I do think that Republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of Republicans, that they in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
There have been efforts in recent years and as recently as this past election with it being a deliberate and systematic attempt… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius Copy Share Image
We need the value and the beauty of democracy, and the beauty of pluralism is there's a free exchange of ideas. Nobody… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
While I was writing my book, I got a top police official in Bombay an invitation to study terrorism at the Rand… — Suketu Mehta Copy Share Image
Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South,… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy:… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power.… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image