Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy. — Gijs de Vries Copy Share Image
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution. — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
Democrats want more censorship, not less, as long as it silences conservative voices. — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The case for democracy is that voters in the aggregate will make better decisions than a lone monarch or dictator would. — Max Boot Copy Share Image
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
I feel honor-bound to have a private relationship with my children. And that's not a judgment about anybody else and what they… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy,… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
We are a nation of United States - a constitutional republic made up of individually governed states empowering three equal branches of… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing… — Plato Copy Share Image
Political boundaries in their most physical terms can make or break an election. The manipulation of electoral districts can make them either… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
It's the Democrat Party that is destroying the integrity of the American electoral system. It's not Vladimir Putin. It's not Dmitry Medvedev.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Democrats are not seeking reelection on anything good. And everything bad that's happening is the result of Democrats having won elections… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Poultry Farm (Sonnet) First law of poultry farming: keep your livestock busy with trivial problems, so they stay ever oblivious to systemic… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on… — Tony Hiss Copy Share Image
laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee Copy Share Image
A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world….because if you have power you use it to meet the needs… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Democracy is stronger, is better, is more robust when people participate. We should want to encourage that. — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Democrats need to value free speech and we should not be intimidated into giving an inch of it away. — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
“If the Nazis are Socialists simply because they call themselves Socialists, then North Korea really is a Democratic Republic.” — Atom Tate Copy Share Image
“We would have fed the world if we hadn't been throwing away food in the gap between the rich and the poor.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation. — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what… — Stjepan Hauser Copy Share Image
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority. — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people. — Angus King Copy Share Image
Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
