Democracy Quotes · Page 125

Rank and file Democrats are very patriotic. They love this country and support the military.

— Dick Mountjoy

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I get that Republicans have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn my last name into a curse word.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

Starting in 2005, my first session in the legislature, my colleagues elected me to be Democratic whip.

— Marc Veasey

“After Election, the politicians forgot their promises and enjoyed an earned rest until New Year, when they started work on the next…

— Betty Smith

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old…

— Klemens von Metternich

More than deciding who should come to power, the 2024 elections are about who should not.

— M. K. Stalin

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

— Mitch McConnell

Closely allied to the assumption that Democrats can't win because they're too secular is the view that they can't win if they're…

— Jacob Weisberg

Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of…

— Albert Einstein

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and…

— Atifete Jahjaga

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period…

— Fiona Shaw

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we…

— Tim Kaine

The things that I was building on originally for the defense of our democracies had been completely inverted to really, in my…

— Christopher Wylie

I honestly feel that if there is an important point of view, any member of the Congress party, any member of my…

— Manmohan Singh

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles…

— Ivan Krastev

“As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: 'The issue of demoncratic access to…

— Rebecca Solnit

Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly…

— James Bryant Conant

Apart from democracy, globalisation and economic liberalism is our 20th century area of commonality with the U.S., the burgeoning numbers of skilled…

— Barkha Dutt

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments…

— David Foster Wallace

I care deeply about women's rights. I have been an outspoken advocate for them for many years and as secretary of state…

— Hillary Clinton

I can't see the Democrats working with Donald Trump on tax reform unless the rich get soaked. The thing about this that…

— Rush Limbaugh

“When occasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of…

— Alexander Hamilton

We know that a government shutdown is gonna blamed on the Republicans no matter who, what, when, where, why. You want to…

— Rush Limbaugh

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt…

— Jim DeMint

The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle

— Robert Sobukwe

Republicans are so taken by and loyal to Trump that they will believe and do anything he says.

— Malcolm Nance

Democrats are talking about how Vernon [Jordan] cheats, I mean, he philanders, he's all over place, and they love him for it.

— Rush Limbaugh

I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

— Kate Adie

They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.

— Kevin Drum

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

— Pearl S. Buck

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

— Robert A. Dahl

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?

— Anonymous

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem…

— Walter Cronkite

The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.

— Vladimir Putin

From my time at the CIA to my time in the House, I've dedicated my career to protecting our democracy and ensuring…

— Abigail Spanberger

“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.”

— Ken Follett

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being…

— Margaret Halsey

Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

— Fidel Castro