Democracy Quotes · Page 135

America is a country ready to be taken-in fact, longing to be taken-by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to…

— Arianna Huffington

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

— Richard Attenborough

“True democracy speaks; it does not shout. It listens to reason, not the roar of populism.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

Conservatives, Republicans have to rebuild public confidence in what we say we are going to do. That is a high hurdle but…

— Kori Schake

The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry.

— Howard Dean

I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

— John Fund

Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster.

— Neil Postman

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national…

— Bill Vaughan

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and…

— Rand Paul

When a political advocacy network hires a former CIA analyst and starts tailing save-our-parks activists, you know there's something terribly dangerous happening…

— David Brock

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule…

— Ernie Harwell

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Where is democratic process or popular sovereignty for the endangered population? It cannot be "given" or "allocated" by some other power without…

— Judith Butler

The old-school GOP that championed limited government, fiscal restraint, and the defense of the ideals of democracy at home and abroad was…

— Jonathan Capehart

I don't believe in democracy I believe in military dictatorship. I believe the strong should always rule the weak and the leader…

— Dirgha

Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in…

— Stefan Molyneux

I don't find any difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalists. I believe religion is the root, and from the root fundamentalism grows…

— Taslima Nasrin

“First, it is a commitment to particularism, to giving priority to the specificity of particulars, not to abstractions and generalities that divert…

— José Medina

There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the…

— Gloria Steinem

I think some people have blind faith in American institutions without knowing a whole lot about them and think they will stand…

— Masha Gessen

If the widespread attempts to block Brexit gave us a glimpse into how fragile our commitment to democracy had become - reduced…

— Claire Fox

“Both Democrats and Republicans have strayed so far from the path of responsible financial policy that the concept of balancing the budget…

— Ben Carson

The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism,…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America…

— Trevor Noah

Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

— Anthea Butler

My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for…

— Mike Huckabee

If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

— Chrystia Freeland

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?

— Bill Moyers

Duty of a citizen to the defective state is betraying it. Because the defective state has already betrayed its citizens.

— Ilkin Santak

If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

— Barack Obama

We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.

— Anker Jørgensen

It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

— Ralph Nader

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The language of law should be simple and straight, if you expect people to obey it.”

— Amit Kalantri

The right to religious freedom and the right to vote are both fundamental to our democracy.

— Lois Frankel

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

— Ralph Nader

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the…

— Walter E. Williams

European democracy, for me, is the best form of government invented by mankind.

— Petro Poroshenko