Democracy Quotes · Page 120

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

— Jan Smuts

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

— Margaret Halsey

Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world…

— Narendra Modi

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical…

— Hillary Clinton

Voting rights is how we address the deepening divides in our country, by ensuring every eligible voter's voice is heard.

— Raphael Warnock

None can know their election but by their conformity to the image of Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to…

— Matthew Henry

When something looks cheap, it looks cheap and that is all, and there is no justification for this cheapness.

— Ilkin Santak

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government…

— Steve Earle

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that…

— Ambrose Bierce

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our…

— Natan Sharansky

But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be…

— Mark Twain

I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny.…

— Condoleezza Rice

You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just…

— Frank Schaeffer

To make sure Republicans stayed in power, they suppressed voting by people likely to vote Democratic, and gerrymandered states so that even…

— Heather Cox Richardson

I can't really stress enough how inviolable the House floor is supposed to be. It's a place of debate. It's a place…

— Colin Allred

What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is…

— Mia Love

“[Democracy] is as without plans as it is without energy, as incapable of harm as it is incapable of good. It is…

— Peter Carey

Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which…

— Murray Rothbard

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the…

— Benito Mussolini

You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You…

— Cory Booker

What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses…

— Henry Giroux

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have…

— Michelle Bachelet

The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus…

— Allen West

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

— Taki Theodoracopulos

“In democracy to avoid corruption, we change presidents every eight years. We should change the senators for the same reason”

— Beta Metani' Marashi

Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.

— Pierre Trudeau

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for…

— Max Lerner

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate…

— Aldous Huxley

Democracy's got endless problems and faults and dangers, but it's certain the alternatives are not better.

— W. S. Merwin

“Even the Greeks—the so called champions of democracy—voted without ever allowing a single woman into the process.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.

— Hillary Clinton

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

— James Bovard

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

— John Maynard Keynes

Those who share the same values with you are your darlings, not those who share the same blood with you.

— Ilkin Santak

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in…

— Ann Coulter

The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.

— John McCain

I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

— Park Geun-hye

Our democracy has survived for so many years in India. We should at least give credit to the Congress for that.

— Nana Patekar