Democracy Quotes · Page 175

The PRI can afford to push democratization; it can afford to be generous because it has a very good chance of winning…

— Denise Dresser

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

— Mark Shields

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.

— Terry Tempest Williams

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

— Thomas Sowell

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

— Christopher Dodd

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

— Jason Reitman

When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs.

— Ilkin Santak

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But…

— Moby

I actually did a quick survey of how caste plays out in contemporary India. The idea that democracy and development have in…

— Arundhati Roy

Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than…

— George Orwell

Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a result they…

— Juan Williams

That is an annoying side of democracy. The pendulum falls often in the extreme, and then we have to bring it back.…

— Pipilotti Rist

“liberalism and democracy, with all of their limitations, are what remains after every utopia and extremist scheme based on blood and territory…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is…

— Don DeLillo

My political tradition is on the left, but I think that more modern leftists, they sometimes get stuck with this vision of…

— Ilya Ponomarev

There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These…

— Russell Cornell Leffingwell

I was very sensitized for what went on inside of the East Germans. Obviously, the first thing was that they were happy…

— Nina Hoss

The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very…

— Simon Schama

In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the…

— Harry Boyte

If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that…

— Henry Giroux

The Democrats have lost a thousand electoral seats in America in midterm elections, 2010, 2014. The people of this country are clearly…

— Rush Limbaugh

The largest weight is now on Germany's shoulders. Chancellor Merkel must continue to convince people of the EU's importance; she must spearhead…

— Anthony Glees

I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me…

— Lawrence Lessig

Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy,

— Sharan Burrow

Democracy is a process - it's not an end state, and our democracy continues to evolve, and sometimes we go backward.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far…

— Sean Hannity

“There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling…

— David Foster Wallace

Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

— Harry S. Truman

Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.

— Rand Paul

I've been able to bridge divides in a very partisan time and get Republicans and Democrats to work with me to try…

— Steve Bullock

We need to, in my opinion, to restore the full strength of the federal Voting Rights Act.

— Alex Padilla

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

— Rush Limbaugh

The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.

— Maajid Nawaz

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

— Martin McGuinness

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

— Ronald Reagan

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

— P. J. O'Rourke

How one election has exposed the true dire straits of the Democrat Party. It really is profound.

— Rush Limbaugh

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

— Barack Obama