Democracy Quotes · Page 121

Winning and losing have their significance in a democracy. But there should be no arrogance in victory, nor should there be any…

— Yogi Adityanath

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

— Blanche Lincoln

One good outcome of elections is that fresh talent comes into the House of Commons.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.

— Kevin Drum

Political democracy has failed in the U.S. because there hasn't been economic democracy.

— David Dellinger

People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.

— Anonymous

The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.

— Bill Schneider

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

— Ha-Joon Chang

I hope those who previously only thought of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee regarding Hong Kong would now realise that the city…

— Joshua Wong

The Democratic Party is very afraid of having competition that is actually unmuzzled and that can tell the truth, which is why…

— Jill Stein

This is what democracy is all about. People have every right to protest whoever's in the White House, without fear of persecution.…

— Michael McCaul

What's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that…

— Ralph Nader

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The…

— Plato

The Soviet Union attempted to export communism to the entire world. We know what came of that. Now the West is trying…

— Vladimir Yakunin

A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is…

— Joseph Cook

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in…

— Peer Steinbruck

“The disturbingly techno-illiterate and cyber-hygienically lackadaisical and shockingly arrogant responses by the National Association of Secretaries of States when we at ICIT…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for…

— Harold Edmund Stearns

Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“The World Bank, anxious that the last vestiges of Zimbabwe's former inclination toward socialism be abandoned, successfully urged the imposition of a…

— Michael Dorris

“We do not take democracy for granted. We feel it grow in our working together—many millions of us working toward a common…

— Carlos Bulosan

The American People are witnessing the greatest lie that is cleverly orchestrated by President Obama and his whole administration. President Obama feeds…

— Jon Voight

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn't believe in our election system and believes that there's rampant voter fraud.

— Chuck Todd

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

— Ronald Reagan

Obama tried to make deals with Republicans, and I don't think he realized he'd have such an insanely opposing Congress.

— Saikat Chakrabarti

What I see is a grown-up recognition of democracy in this country, that we still have a monarch that plays his part.

— Lindsay Hoyle

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a…

— Amy Goodman

“Sense isn’t democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse. Promoting democracy must be undertaken with humility, care, and wisdom.

— Richard N. Haass

I agree with Democrats seeking Trump's impeachment for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

— Jessica Tarlov

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

— Gene Sharp

The language of our democracy should be such that the weakest in our society should feel safe.

— Ravish Kumar

Let's not get caught up in the D.C. trap of Democrats versus Republicans. When you're in Alaska it's about what's important for…

— Mark Begich

The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.

— Jose Angel Gurria

Odisha is a peaceful state; the people will not stand for violence in a democracy.

— Naveen Patnaik

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

— Bertrand Russell

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

— Dave Brat

It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.

— Noah Feldman