Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide. — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
As a matter of principle, we are opposed to destabilising a stable government, and I believe in the norms of healthy democracy. — Rajnath Singh Copy Share Image
Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.” — Aysha Taryam Copy Share Image
If citizen is legally forced to recognize the sovereignty of the state - there cannot be any speech about freedom. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The people participate in votes in their states to choose electors to elect the president, but the people don't elect the president.… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy,… — Avigdor Lieberman Copy Share Image
From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
The people are doing everything they can to stop Democrats! The problem is, the media is running the opposition, not the Democrats.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The word 'charismatic' was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
“In my opinion the main evil of the present democratic institutions of the United States does not arise, as is often asserted… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
“The familiar claim – or ‘moral’ exhortation – that ‘if you don’t vote, you’ve no right to complain’ surely has it the… — Paul McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
The report produced by my commission, the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, in 2012 showed the corrosive impact of money… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by… — Larry Diamond Copy Share Image
“Capitalism allocates resources, generates innovation, rewards effort, and builds affluence with high efficiency, and these are extraordinarily important things to do well… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed! — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Lions don't leave society in the hands of government. Government is second in command - civilians, chief commander.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending. — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
“It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed.” — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
You can always tell when Obama's negotiations with the Republicans are winding down, because he's missing his watch and his lunch money. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists. — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease. — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“A politician often uses an example or analogy as an attempt to make us forget the question he or she is supposedly… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process. — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
“Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.” — Oliver Bullough Copy Share Image
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image