“Political participation must not be limited to the voting booth, but active participation in political and electoral life must span the calendar… — Frederick Clarkson Copy Share Image
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility. — Daniel Greenberg Copy Share Image
The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest. — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
If you want the public to believe in you as an MP, if you want them to believe in democracy, you've got… — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
[The Democrats] can't stop anything. It's why everybody's so confused why they reelected [Nancy] Pelosi. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran. — Jane Harman Copy Share Image
I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
“[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
In any country, governance issues are there. Challenges are there, pressures are there. When multi-party coalitions take decisions, sometimes delays will be… — Anand Sharma Copy Share Image
“In 2009, Obama surrogate Jim Messina told Democratic Senators that they could defend Obamacare as stridently as possible – because, after all,… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The difference in this town - here in Washington - on the war is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between people… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Republicans spend too much time on defense. We have to be on offense. We have to point out the truth. President Obama… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
The real problem is the total capitulation of German social democracy to capitalism, reflected and symbolized by actual extreme center coalition governments… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be… — Mort Kondracke Copy Share Image
After Iraq, there's been Libya, there's Syria, and the rhetoric of, you know, democracy versus radical Islam. When you look at the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It should come as no surprise that Russia continues its effort to manipulate Western democracies in a way to sow discord and… — Tom Cotton Copy Share Image
I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“I realize that what happened in Bosnia could happen anywhere in the world, particularly in places that are diverse and have a… — Savo Heleta Copy Share Image
Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror! — John Adams Copy Share Image
If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it. — Medgar Evers Copy Share Image
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There have been so many times when I challenged Republicans on air - in big moments. — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
The Democrats say that President Bush doesn't have an exit strategy for Iraq. Of course he does. If things don't go well,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I was on the elections committee in my last session in the state House of Representatives. — Marc Veasey Copy Share Image
We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
African Americans know implicitly that you cannot take freedoms for granted and that democracy is precious. And it's worth fighting for. — Colin Allred Copy Share Image
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
The older Democratic party focused on equality of opportunity, economic growth and targeted tax cuts. — Vernon Jones Copy Share Image
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