As Democrats and progressives look to the future, we should remember our most essential values. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
The 2018 elections gave Democrats a landslide victory in the House and showed that voters are eager if not desperate to hold… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
Let us continue to strive together for a more inclusive, democratic, and peaceful future for us all. — Fernando Henrique Cardoso Copy Share Image
Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
We can't fully heal as a nation if our democracy only works for the well-off and well-connected. — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The problem with voting is that because your individual vote makes very little difference, you're voting with a mass of others, you… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 =… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
“This is why the collapse of the relationship between experts and citizens is a dysfunction of democracy itself. The abysmal literacy, both… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
We know that when people are civically engaged, when they understand what their rights are, when they understand that in a democracy… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and… — Ed Rollins Copy Share Image
I've had opportunities before to run for office - the Republicans recruited me when I was surgeon general, to run for Congress,… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Republicans need to speak up, and people need to know that not all Republicans are represented by the hostile, vile voice of… — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
It's an issue that Democrats and Republicans seem to come together on, the over-influence of money in politics and in power. — Andrew Gillum Copy Share Image
“We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Campaigns and elections are the process in which democracy separates the willing from the able, and goes with the willing.” — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I wanted to do comedy because I left Malaysia and went to America. I got bitten by the Western, idealist, opinionated, democracy… — Nigel Ng Copy Share Image
We didn't move here so I could save American democracy. But I've embraced it with the zeal of a convert. — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
Democrats and Republicans agree that police misconduct should be better tracked. But agreement appears to end there. — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Bet a lot of Republicans would've preferred a deal that was $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. — Democritus Copy Share Image
And turns out, it's not Republicans throwing granny off a cliff... It's the Fed!? — Neil Cavuto Copy Share Image
Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats. — Richard J. Daley Copy Share Image
As a Marine officer, I defended our democracy from foreign enemies. As a Member of Congress, I am solemnly resolved to defend… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
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