U.S. elections are run by counties, and the laws they follow are set by each state. — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship. — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
Democrats have a cultural problem. People that have a faith-based value system either don't vote for us, or they do, but have… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
The Democrats cannot find Romney fingerprints on what's happening to this country. Every fingerprint is Barack Obama's, Joe Biden's, Nancy Pelosi's, Harry… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Well, I'm like most Americans, we don't vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Republicans want to keep the open Internet safe from big government. Democrats want to keep it safe from big corporations. I say… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
Islamic laws this is something Americans should look into, maybe not in the near future, but I think people are definitely looking… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
What Republicans need to do is to go back to their roots - starting with Lincoln - and remind the nation that… — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
“fundamentally, people do not prefer independent thought and the accompanying responsibility, but rather orders, subordination, and the accompanying exemption from responsibility. In… — Yoshiki Tanaka Copy Share Image
The 80s and 90s were the beginning of the hollowing out of the American little democracy. It started with Reagan and went… — Eddie Pepitone Copy Share Image
In terms of our democracy, we are sort of shrugging our shoulders and saying, oh dear, Guantánamo, that's so awful, that's so… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
As a lawyer, as a former prosecutor, and as a son and grandson of foreign-service officers who tried to represent American democracy… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“Communism is a judgment on our failure to make democracy real and to follow through on the revolutions that we initiated. Our… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely if ever] predictive of… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn't… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.” — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Most Americans do really think that Muslims all want to take over and they don't want democracy and they want nothing but… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“I abhore democracy in it's truest form , because I am always disgusted with the will of the mob” — Gerald Lanteigne Copy Share Image
If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one… — Nikolay Dobrolyubov Copy Share Image
About 65 percent of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is not the best candidate to go head to head with Hillary Clinton. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Democrats thought that Hillary Clinton is too aggressive and too much into regime change. — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
When I fight elections, I don't think about results whether it is assembly or Lok Sabha polls. — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
“So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people.” “That’s democracy.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Without democracy, we are voiceless subjects. But with it, we are citizens armed with the power to change our destinies. — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote. — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
“Jules turned to her, incredulous. 'Do you socialize with Republicans?' "'It happens, Jules.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I always say to young people, I want you to be the next generation of politicians. I want you to take over,… — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image