On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero. — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The international community should pressure Iran to get the Houthis to agree to some peaceful understanding in Yemen. But at the same… — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
Across the country, Republican politicians have used the threat of voter fraud and the promise of 'election integrity' to justify new barriers… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The drama of any election night often obscures the banal reality behind voting. Even when winners and losers are clear, it takes… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate"… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what a majority of Americans say. George W.Bush is going to do what he thinks he must do. And… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans, all of us in this grand hall and everybody watching at home, when we vote in this election, we'll… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The number one priority of President Trump is to rebuild our military, to restore the arsenal of democracy. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give -… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It… — John Bruton Copy Share Image
So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools. — Ivan Krylov Copy Share Image
The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
The Honours List is accused of being too top heavy, rewarding those born with a silver spoon in their mouth - as… — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
The government should train and direct the people in their acquisition of political knowledge and ability, thereby enabling them to exercise the… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image