Democracy Quotes · Page 166

There are a lot of areas where Republicans can take aspects of Millennials' lives and really speak policy to them.

— S.E. Cupp

Can it be believed that the democracy, which has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings, will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

— Alexis de Tocqueville

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

— Albert Einstein

Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting…

— Jair Bolsonaro

If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.

— Brad Carson

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

— Phil Donahue

If mental gymnastics were an Olympic sport, Republicans desperate to defend Trump would all be gold medal contenders.

— Jessica Tarlov

Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.

— Johnny Carson

Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most…

— Brad Pitt

Let's not forget that the essential message of a Republican candidate is a tricky sell. That you love America, but hate all…

— Frankie Boyle

Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope…

— Tim Holden

There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that…

— Pat Robertson

The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information…

— Jonathan Demme

As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some…

— Ralph Nader

“a democratic nation can limp along even when its chief of state is widely understood to be a lazy, bumbling simpleton. Fallible…

— Timothy Ferriserris

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to…

— Joe Wilson

What surprised me was the angst at our democracy. And I understand it - I teach at a university and feel it…

— Condoleezza Rice

The media plays an essential role in our culture. It is the Fourth Estate; it's an undeniably essential instrument in the great…

— Thomas Sadoski

Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt…

— Benjamin Tucker

This is essential that we have a resurgence in democratic participation. And I don't mean big-D Democrat, I mean small-D democrat. I…

— Keith Ellison

The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced…

— Anonymous

All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still…

— Robert Bly

We have to be a democracy and demand certain things even after that individual gets in the White House. All those promises…

— Charlamagne Tha God

As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for…

— Mark Udall

Republicans are being loyal to their donors. They're being loyal to the paymasters, if you will. And it's squandering an opportunity.

— Rush Limbaugh

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

— Agnes Repplier

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

— Milton Glaser

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

— Condoleezza Rice

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of…

— James Connolly

It is vital to speak up in a democracy. Otherwise we are living in dictatorships.

— Katharine Gun

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

— David Korten

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

— H. L. Mencken

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half…

— Aneurin Bevan

I'm in favor of improving our bridges and roads, and am willing to work with our Democratic colleagues on a thoughtful and…

— Tommy Tuberville

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

— Gary Ackerman

Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.

— Tariq Ali

America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.

— Gaspar Noe

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

— Ronald Reagan

I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy.

— Reuven Rivlin

“Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result…

— Jack Lessenberry