Democracy Quotes · Page 119

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.

— Ted Kulongoski

It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy.

— Naomi Mitchison

Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.

— Dennis Miller

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

— Elie Wiesel

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

— John Conyers

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

— Alexander Haig

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

— John Negroponte

“The most effective way to revive democracy is to do what we have always done; transfer decision-making from the unaccountable institutions: monarchs,…

— Aaron Nordquist

“democracy is not simply order and rationality displayed in voting, structured decision making, and legislating, but that it also and necessarily is…

— Carl DiSalvo

The Blue Dogs are all Democrats; they are. And I'll tell you, in terms of wearing the Democratic label, I think they're…

— Jim Matheson

[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy…

— Shimon Peres

We need to stand up to Donald Trump and the Republicans, but we also need to stand up against our own party…

— Seth Moulton

Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in…

— Gwynne Dyer

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the…

— Adam Schiff

If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but…

— Rory Stewart

I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed…

— Peace Pilgrim

“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but…

— Glenn Greenwald

Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in…

— Michael Moore

In the words of Alice Walker, the biggest way people give up power is by not knowing we have it to start…

— Jill Stein

Voters replaced Democratic senators with Republicans in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, North Carolina, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia, and likely in Alaska, and…

— Byron York

Because of the expensive system and the competition among various groups, democracy needs a lot of money. As a natural consequence it…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

We will have to work around the world with less than ideal governments. The government in Saudi Arabia is not a democracy,…

— Marco Rubio

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

We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today

— Ismail Serageldin

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For…

— Rob Zerban

We'll get things done together. Democrats, Republicans, independents, we're going to make progress together when I'm president.

— Hillary Clinton

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I certainly want to be the whip, and that's an election every two years in the Senate Democratic caucus.

— Dick Durbin

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and…

— John F. Kerry

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

— Abraham Lincoln

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

— W. Somerset Maugham

You know, the fact is that if we haven't got democracy, we have dictatorship. That is never the answer.

— Lindsay Hoyle

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

— Martin Frost

People who directly incite political violence are leaving the guardrails of constitutional democracy.

— Jake Auchincloss

Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

— Anand Giridharadas

The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom.

— George W. Bush

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

— Jeremy Corbyn