If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy, — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Elections should be judged based on the trend on the ground and not through imagination. — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
When people speak of BJP being an 'election machine,' it is actually development and progress that is BJP's electoral machine. — Amit Shah Copy Share Image
I will continue to work with Republicans and Democrats alike to ensure U.S. Military communities around the globe are not left behind. — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . . — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
People of India deserve to be complimented for making the 2014 elections a referendum on the misrule of the Congress-led UPA and… — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The minority must have involvement in society. You can have different cultural practices that you accept. But if you are going to… — Sheila Jackson Lee Copy Share Image
“Going into the Republican Party National Convention, in all objective truth, our non‑winning front‑runners are the sorriest collection of stuffed shirts, empty… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“So I asked Dr Ceric if he thought there was a conflict between European values and Islam. ‘Not at all,’ he said.… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations… This is the way… — Newton B. Drury Copy Share Image
For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
There cannot be such thing as a hate crime against radicalism. Because radicalism itself is a hate crime. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The challenge of the Republican Party is, if we're going to start winning national elections, we've got to get along as all… — John Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do. — Hazel Blears Copy Share Image
The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately. — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
“Democracy, when unchecked, often slips into anarchy—freedom without discipline, a blindness disguised as liberty.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I've said that we need to elect Democrats from the school board to the Senate. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
