Democracy Quotes · Page 132

Elections should be about making the people a part of the development journey. That is when India will move ahead.

— Narendra Modi

For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men…

— Laura Bush

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

— Theodore Parker

I'm going to take part in the elections, not just as a candidate but as a mouthpiece for those who can't become…

— Ksenia Sobchak

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Well, I don't think any of the Republicans have expressed any interest in supporting the vision of Robert Kennedy at all. At…

— Kerry Kennedy

Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of…

— George Ayittey

I am partisan to some extent on the Democratic side, but I consider myself more of an independent.

— Jay Roach

I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go…

— Geoffrey Hill

The Republicans or conservatives always, when it comes to judging, when it comes to legalities, always try to do the right thing…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is…

— Alfonso Cuaron

“Americans have always thought they had a democracy form of government. We don’t. We have a constitutional republic – a representative form…

— David R. Johnson

I'm still waiting for the revolution against globalization in the rest of the world. The corruption that's eating away our systems; the…

— Peter Sunde

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep…

— Lincoln Chafee

“(Modern versions of this argument held that American democracy was born of the slave society of rural Virginia, because slavery gave men…

— Tom Reiss

And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers,…

— Thomas Jefferson

You've got the whole stuff with transgender toilets and stuff like that - that's no way for a government to behave. We're…

— Irvine Welsh

I'm talking of the idea, basically very widespread in America, that the less government the better, which is obviously being used to…

— Murray Bookchin

The Democrats are going to tax everybody through the roof. It is going to be focused on people that are wealthy because…

— Rush Limbaugh

For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the…

— Bernie Sanders

I think the challenge of climate change in particular is the challenge for us to create and produce new norms for a…

— Dale Jamieson

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to…

— John Dewey

The marketplace measurement in politics is something called an election. It's a pretty good barometer - it's transparent, it's numerical, it's objective.…

— Tim Pawlenty

“If the public has no idea about the substance of an issue, and will vote based on who they like rather than…

— Thomas M. Nichols

I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses.

— Marco Rubio

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

— Charles Barkley

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

We are living through an epochal shift. If we aren't careful, the elementary foundations of our pluralistic democracy will be threatened.

— Martin Schulz

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

— John Dewey

People are coming together - Democrats, Republicans, Independents - all of us to reject hate and division.

— Hillary Clinton

Is democracy about living in fear? Is that what our forefathers fought the British for?

— Vikram Bhatt

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation…

— Thurgood Marshall

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

— Walt Disney

I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.

— Derek Walcott

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

— John F. Kerry

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

— Andrew Johnson

Exactly why Democrats were crushed in the '94 midterms is impossible to say.

— Steve Kornacki

Elections come and go, people win and lose, that is part of politics. It doesn't anyway change things on the ground.

— Mehbooba Mufti

We don't have to accept an economy that doesn't work just because some people have got rich in the status quo. That…

— Winnie Byanyima