Democracy Quotes · Page 139

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what…

— Grover Norquist

If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US citizen.

— Anonymous

iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also…

— Evgeny Morozov

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous…

— Jim DeMint

This is what the Democrats want - for you to ignore whoever is pulling the strings of Joe Biden.

— Will Cain

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

— Vladimir Putin

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

— Jean Francois Revel

I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic…

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that…

— C. Wright Mills

The 2020 Democratic primary is a failure of politics. Too many candidates in concert with media, dedicated to serving the interests of…

— Jessica Tarlov

We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We…

— Walter Cronkite

“People tend to form political beliefs in their early years and then stick with them for life. If today’s rich young are…

— Edward Luce

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And…

— Narendra Modi

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all…

— Vladimir Putin

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press,…

— Ronald Reagan

On inequality, I contend that far too much of the nation's wealth and income is gravitating to too few. This undermines the…

— James Stone

I would recommend any American who wants to understand where the government is going in the next four years of George W.…

— Seymour Hersh

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to…

— Will Durant

“The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“We live in a society that is based on 30-second sound bites. We have technology that puts all of the information of…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Experts need to remember, always, that they are the servants and not the masters of a democratic society and a republican government.…

— Thomas M. Nichols

It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The father of democracy is Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister after our independence, who was assassinated under conditions that to this…

— Joseph Kabila

We know the Russians did everything they could to be involved in our campaign. We know that what they're doing around the…

— Joe Manchin

Democrats cannot conceive of "hate speech" towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it.

— Ann Coulter

Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.

— George S. Patton

The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

— Dick Gephardt

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's…

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

— Ron Suskind

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.

— Bruno Kreisky

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

— Mary Barnett Gilson

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

— Walter Lippmann

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

— Moshe Dayan

For Republicans, tort reform and its health care analogue, malpractice reform, speak to the goal of stronger economic growth and lower costs.

— Bill Bradley

Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi…

— Simon Wiesenthal