Democracy Quotes · Page 108

You believe that you can win the nomination of your party, and then you believe that you're the strongest candidate to win…

— Rudy Giuliani

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but…

— Michelle Bachelet

Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.

— Martina Navratilova

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

— Eugene McCarthy

California Democrats - we fight on the front lines - we don't equivocate on the sidelines.

— Kevin de Leon

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period…

— Karl Marx

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

— William J. Clinton

Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.

— Dennis Prager

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless,…

— Charles Edison

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like…

— Jaron Lanier

For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the…

— Olof Palme

Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, social security - hey, how about we privatize privacy! Because if…

— Bill Maher

I believe the Obama administration was asleep at the switch, not paying attention to what NATO and E.U. expansion - and promoting…

— John Mearsheimer

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting…

— Barbara Boxer

By reducing the influence of big money in politics and making voting as accessible as possible we are raising the voices of…

— Colin Allred

The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing elections. And those of us independent of the two…

— Kevin Zeese

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

— Stephen Kinzer

The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans…

— Bernie Sanders

“In The Knights Aristophanes gave us a picture of the final state of corruption in which the vulgar rabble ends when--just as…

— Søren Kierkegaard

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

“We're living in a perverted and twisted smokescreen of democracy that's nothing short of dictatorship, where the unelected actually rule. And behind…

— Sibel Hodge

That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having…

— George Mason

“There is only one further use of violence in political quarrels which I should consider justified. I mean the resistance, once democracy…

— Karl R. Popper

I want something else; a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism.…

— Alice Walker

Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of…

— Reuven Rivlin

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

— Alain Badiou

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

— Noam Chomsky

Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.

— Susana Martinez

Venezuela has immense talents and resources, and we can help rebuild our democracy.

— Juan Guaido

You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.

— Ronald Reagan

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

— Anatole France

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

— Alan Dershowitz

I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women's vote will backfire.

— David Brock

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Secretary of State, maybe they [Republicans] would consider Steve Hadley for that job.

— George Stephanopoulos

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

— Indira Gandhi

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President polarizing after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years…

— Jeffrey C Stewart

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a…

— Rush Limbaugh