Democracy Quotes · Page 115

Democracy on a supranational level is simply impossible. In order to have democracy, there needs to be a nation.

— Geert Wilders

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from…

— Boots Riley

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.

— Gloria Steinem

The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own…

— Scott McClellan

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

— Avi Rubin

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted…

— Kevin Spacey

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

— Steve Earle

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

No government really rooted in limited, parliamentary democracy should have the power to make its citizens fight and kill and die in…

— Bill Clinton

Have you ever noticed the Democrats always set the agenda? Whatever the Democrats say they want, that's just what's gonna happen. There's…

— Rush Limbaugh

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define…

— Todd Gitlin

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible,…

— Erich Fromm

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong…

— William J. Clinton

politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for…

— Amelia Barr

“In a dictatorship you must be careful about what you say. In a democracy you can say whatever you want… the important…

— Dario de Judicibus

“The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who…

— Neil Postman

The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a…

— Paul Kengor

You notice that the Democrats are totally unified. I mean, you know they're dragging Algore back out? Algore is being dragged out…

— Rush Limbaugh

The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of…

— Flannery O'Connor

The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to…

— Charles Krauthammer

In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is…

— John Stuart Mill

There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T.…

— Al Franken

The Constitution of our country [was] formed by the Fathers of liberty... Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with that of priestcraft,…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

— Hillary Clinton

We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.

— Cindy Sheehan

A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

— Kay Granger

“If you want the best evidence of just how strong our democracy is, come into the courtroom.”

— Michael Ponsor

Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

— John M. McHugh

The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.

— Dennis Prager

Mr. Obama's call to support genuine democracy has implications for the kinds of elections the international community promotes and endorses.

— Tzipi Livni

We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

— Paul Wellstone

I think as the largest democracy in the world, we have self-conscious filmmakers who can handle sensitive themes.

— Shoojit Sircar

Voting is the bedrock of our democracy and we have a moral responsibility to protect and expand the right to vote -…

— Andy Beshear

The criminal conduct of Hillary Clinton threatens the foundations of democracy.

— Donald Trump

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

— Jonathan Sacks

I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers.

— William J. Clinton

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

— Charles Edison

Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

— Bret Stephens