Democracy Quotes · Page 61

I think Donald Trump believes in democracy and the right to change of power.

— Jan Brewer

In a democratic party, where internal democracy is alive, there are bound to be different views.

— Amit Shah

The problem with voting is that because your individual vote makes very little difference, you're voting with a mass of others, you…

— Jason Brennan

[The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism....we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so…

— Michael Steele

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

— Lord Acton

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

— Patricia Arquette

Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907,…

— Stephen Kinzer

We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we…

— Louise Erdrich

“It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.”

— Aaron Sorkin

Our challenge is to mobilize a new coalition of conscience to restore the Voting Rights Act, strengthen voting rights and broaden voter…

— Martin Luther King III

My study of past elections in which there was a dominant issue other than the economy indicates that whomever is most trusted…

— Harry Enten

Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.

— Michael Moore

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

— Mark Twain

The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply…

— John F. Kennedy

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership

— Jeff Miller

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and…

— Todd Gitlin

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.

— Adolf Hitler

The essential contradiction at the heart of America's problems: if we were a democracy and if we truly enjoyed free speech, we…

— Douglas Valentine

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

— George Bernard Shaw

If any party fights the election on the basis of religion, it will not succeed.

— Mehbooba Mufti

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Teachings and ideologies subversive to the fundamental principles of this great Republic, which are contrary to the Constitution of the United States,…

— David O. McKay

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it…

— Roger Mudd

A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

— Nelson Mandela