The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The E.U. elections provide an opportunity for the people of the United Kingdom to knock some sense into the heads of their… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy. — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative,… — Michael Enzi Copy Share Image
Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy.… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Republicans seem to be gambling that most Americans won't care about a few rich private equity managers if their own taxes go… — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
“Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity— he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly,… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies- or to help the world's most desperate - the AIDS… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors… — Neil Steinberg Copy Share Image
“One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
Almost all of the liberal and Christian members of the constitutional commission have withdrawn, because we all fear that the Muslim Brotherhood… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
That's why we have senators and members of congress from every state. That's why we have elections. Because the people speak and… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy. — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
Now we have Republicans - to one degree or another - working as hard as the Democrats are to defeat Donald Trump. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits. — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Republicans have spent a lot of money redistricting and everything, getting control of these governorships and statehouses. — Collin Peterson Copy Share Image
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
In a democracy, you have the right to say what you want, but don't forget about equality: are you putting someone else… — Nicole Seah Copy Share Image
Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Even if AAP wins municipal elections we will continue to demand probe into EVM tampering because it threatens the base of democracy. — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
“The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
