Democracy Quotes · Page 128

You'll never change anything in this country through voting. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

— Jair Bolsonaro

I wrote the tunes. I was the driving force. The rest were quite happy just to go along with things. But it…

— Wayne Hussey

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force

— Vladimir Putin

Nationhood is more likely to guarantee autocracy, decadence and corruption than real democracy.

— Martin Dansky

I can't think of an election that is more important, certainly in my lifetime.

— Hillary Clinton

In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic…

— Roman Abramovich

“A general who wages war for a republic whose cause is not just would make devils of soldiers, and turn honor to…

— Christopher Moore

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

The Senate is the big prize. Until recently, Democrats felt confident they could get the four seats they needed to take back…

— Mara Liasson

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of…

— Richard von Weizsaecker

Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy…

— Henry Giroux

“Only a little more than a quarter of eligible voters cast ballots in Democratic or Republican primaries and caucuses. More than half…

— P.J. O'Rourke

The power the fossil fuel industry exerts over Congress is polluting American democracy, the propaganda it emits through its front groups is…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

It's important for us to vote in mid-term off year elections in the times where state legislators and mayors offices are being…

— Aldis Hodge

I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he…

— Tom Daschle

If you go back to when Republicans had any kind of voice in Hollywood at all, you have to go to the…

— Chuck Woolery

I would like to stress this point undoubtedly: France sees the Arab Spring as auspicious. The Arab Spring holds out tremendous hope…

— Alain Juppe

All of us in a bipartisan manner went out of our way to explain to the voters how our election systems are…

— Audie Cornish

I'd like to see stability and a unified Iraq. A young democracy will provide the stability we look for. I will tell…

— George W. Bush

The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule…

— Ibn Warraq

It is clear that Germany needs a foreign policy in which we jointly define European interests. Thus far, we have often defined…

— Sigmar Gabriel

“Destroying the joint means building a new system in which it is not OK to allow people to be marginalised, exploited and…

— Christine Milne

You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but…

— Reid Hoffman

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

— Serj Tankian

I believe I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans. Am I either one? Absolutely not. Ladies and gentlemen, I am an…

— David Letterman

I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

— Langston Hughes

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

— H. L. Mencken

If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more…

— Bob Avakian

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

— Calvin Coolidge

It's hard in all countries. Democracy is hard, but it's better than the alternatives.

— Jamie Dimon

In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.

— Ronald Reagan

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment.

— Aristotle

Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.

— Thomas Frank

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.

— Thomas Carlyle

You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net…

— Gwen Moore

Free knowdlege like this doesn't just help, it promote democracy. Thank you.

— Nerice

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

— Narendra Modi

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

— Gary Locke

“A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.”

— Theodore Roosevelt