Democracy Quotes · Page 146

It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.

— David Harsanyi

We're not a homogeneous party, anymore than the Republicans are. But we are a party that I think has a plan to…

— Antonio Villaraigosa

In 2007 elections, people voted for us in the hope that we would get rid of Goonda Raj, as the criminals of…

— Mayawati

NASA works very well with different election organizations because we're all voting from different counties.

— Shannon Walker

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

— Salman Rushdie

Even when they are trying to deceive the voters, the Democrats are incompetent.

— Steve Hilton

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

— Rob Woodall

I'm fully aware of the tricks that are often played in elections here in South Carolina.

— Jaime Harrison

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems…

— David Frum

What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it…

— Mo Ibrahim

Not everything is so bad... Whichever way you look at it, we feel that we can face the future when the liberal,…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point -…

— Omar Bongo

The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,to…

— James Madison

Republicans like to accuse Democrats of trying to 'pick winners and losers.' They say we should run government 'like a business' and…

— Tom Steyer

When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death…

— Noam Chomsky

I actually have to consciously stay away from CNN and MSNBC because it will rot my brain and start having me agree…

— Eddie Pepitone

The problems that exist on Wall Street today go to the center of a debate in this country about wealth and democracy.…

— Dennis Kucinich

Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy.…

— John Adams

“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name and conveys the impression of bringing equal rights to all through equal laws, but its results…

— Cassius Dio

“The Iran War has sharply brought into focus the distinction between two approaches to geopolitics. Faced with a boldly hostile enemy, some…

— R. N. Prasher

“When we don’t pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major…

— Obama

“Well, our economic system "works," it just works in the interests of the masters, and I'd like to see one that works…

— Noam Chomsky

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,…

— Edward Said

You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?

— Ann Coulter

The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned…

— Harriet Harman

The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of…

— Adolf Hitler

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

— Horace Greeley

My opinion of presidential elections are - they need to be about the future.

— Doug Burgum

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

— Noam Chomsky

The southern Democrats are in the saddle and the northern Democrats must tag along as best they may, no matter what ill…

— John Jacobs Rogers

Republicans don't vote Republican because of Nancy Pelosi. They vote Republican because they are Republicans.

— Joy Reid

Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them.

— Andrea Tantaros

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

— Sidney Hook

You can separate corruption from politics only when democracy becomes government of the people, for the people and by the people.

— Vikrant Parsai

“American democracy rests on a foundation of competing tensions among local, state, and federal laws,”

— Ted Koppel

Americans want faith and trust in the integrity of their election processes.

— Tommy Tuberville

What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.

— George W. Bush

Here's the deal: when conservatives lose elections, they change their strategy. When liberals lose elections, they want to change the rules.

— Dan Bongino

To all of you who are Republicans of long standing, I hope you appreciate that I always tried to stand for conservative…

— Richard Mourdock