Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
NDA not only stands for National Democratic Alliance but is also the National Development Alliance. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The Democrats have no evidence that President Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 president election. — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image
“A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.” — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
President Trump's leadership has been very important to this effort of restoring democracy to Venezuela. — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased, — James Baker Copy Share Image
I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live. — Leyla Zana Copy Share Image
Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
The role of the press and the protections which we afford it are today more important than ever before, because we dwell… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence;… — Abdurrahman Wahid Copy Share Image
While we see democracy coming to the Arab world, democracy is getting weaker in Israel. Democracy is in jeopardy in Israel, and… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
“Where democracy – as an evident necessity – has to be organized through representation, actors coincide with groups-interests. In a representative democracy… — Leo Klinkers Copy Share Image
“There can be no real political democracy unless there is something approaching an economic democracy,” he wrote. “There can be neither political… — Ganesh Sitaraman Copy Share Image
“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Why was it sensible for Americans to transubstantiate a convention into the virtual embodiment of the People? After all, as with an… — Akhil Reed Amar Copy Share Image
We shouldn't turn the home of our democracy into a fortress. We don't want the Capitol to become a 'Green Zone' that… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The claim that democracy and efficiency are contradictory is nonsense. That's evident in the history of democracy itself, because it is only… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
“Before continuing further, it is important to gain an understanding of how democracy is perceived by the ordinary people of the Middle… — Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Copy Share Image
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Ripping on Republicans is not that fun for us only because everyone else does it. — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old… — Daniel Greenberg Copy Share Image
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
2018 is a horrendous cycle for Democrats. For starters they have to defend 5 seats in states Barack Obama lost either 2008, 2012 or both. — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It certainly seems to me we would like to bring in the best and the brightest individuals here to participate in this… — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Lokmanya Tilak said "Swaraj is my birthright" but now the people of India must say, "Surajya is my birthright". — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home. — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance". — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
