“Democracy is Nationalism disguised as Leninism. Totalitarian disguised as equalitarian.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth… — Adlai Stevenson Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice creates a dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith. — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary… — Eleanor Dark Copy Share Image
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The PM glanced a look of pure malevolence. A terrifying glimpse into what madness, ego and naked ambition it takes to lead… — Alan Dean Copy Share Image
Now we are immersed in deep democratic revolutions, for the recovery of our resources, and to transform a resource into a basic… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The neoliberal programs of the last generation have in fact been, and were intended to be, a pretty serious attack on democracy,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers… — Edwin O. Reischauer Copy Share Image
For democracy to function properly it requires accepting the absolute right of individuals and groups to campaign against decisions previously taken by… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
“Rely on no one. Depend on no one for your happiness. I am declaring my independence. I am establishing a republic unto… — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
The way the Democrats try to dispirit everybody and impugn people is basically insult their intelligence. If you're not Democrat, if you're… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does… — Plato Copy Share Image
There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
“The ability of a free and independent press to hold political leaders accountable is what makes open government possible—it is the heartbeat… — Madeleine K. Albright Copy Share Image
“We're living in a perverted and twisted smokescreen of democracy that's nothing short of dictatorship, where the unelected actually rule. And behind… — Sibel Hodge Copy Share Image
That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“There is only one further use of violence in political quarrels which I should consider justified. I mean the resistance, once democracy… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
I want something else; a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
'Compromise' isn't supposed to be a dirty word. It is, in fact, how representative democracy works. — Joe Kennedy III Copy Share Image
In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well… — Alfred M. Gray Copy Share Image
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“I am certain that Mr. Johnston is not a douchebag despite what the Republicans claim.” — James Carville Copy Share Image
I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Democracy is only as strong as our commitment to it, and we can't let our guard down in the face of threats… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a most accommodating and charming form of government, full of variety and diversity,” — William De Witt Hyde Copy Share Image
Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Democrats encouraged a porous southern border because they saw migrants and their American-born children as a source of future political support. — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with. — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time. — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
