Democracy Quotes · Page 101

The elections are rigged. It's a totally rigged system. The only way we can lose, in my opinion.

— Donald Trump

“As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

All of our children should be able to aspire to any office in the land,including head of state.Hereditary power is outdated.

— David Crabb

Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.

— Charles Schumer

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the…

— Cornel West

Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

— David Harsanyi

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

— Winston Churchill

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance,…

— Rudy Giuliani

Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds…

— Anonymous

Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing…

— Aung San

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches,…

— H. L. Mencken

Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the…

— Chris Hedges

Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do.…

— Anonymous

“Democracy, as a form of government, is utterly repugnant to—is the very antithesis of—the traditional American system: that of a Republic, as…

— Joseph Befumo

“It remains the hidden aim of democracy to supplant what is national, spiritual, integrating, and paternal with a chimerical system that is…

— Tom Fahy

For too long, New Yorkers have strained to find a leader who represents us, who puts us first, and we have been…

— Zohran Mamdani

“When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution…

— Susan Quinn

Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time…

— Arundhati Roy

Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts,…

— Mark Steyn

When contemplating a shield that would protect America for incoming missiles, Democrats suddenly became hardheaded fiscal conservatives. For the first time in…

— Ann Coulter

Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic. That's why liberals promote policies to break up families. Every social malady is a…

— Ann Coulter

America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically…

— Florence King

If you have an internet service provider that's capable of slowing down other sites, or putting other sites out of business, or…

— Michael Copps

In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.

— Tom Cole

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

— Fatos Nano

If off-year elections were all that predictive, Democrats would have done well in the 2002 midterms.

— Harry Enten

The Democrats want to bring in the Third World because these are, by and large, people who have no experience with Constitutional…

— Ann Coulter

I would say to the president: This is not about me. This is not about Republicans here in Congress. It's about fairness…

— John Boehner

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the…

— Edward Abbey

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

— James L. Petigru

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

— H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

— Sydney J. Harris

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

— Jesse Jackson

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

— Paul Samuelson

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous…

— Mustafa Akyol

The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.

— Jill Stein

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

— Bob Beauprez

Human beings do want peace, stability and harmony and that comes through democracy.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

— Jesse Ventura