Democracy Quotes · Page 184

You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses.

— Richard Corliss

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

— George Orwell

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

— Mia Love

TThe 2016 election highlighted a deep, stark divide between how the political and punditry class think - and how the American people vote.

— Kayleigh McEnany

“Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two.”

— Michel Templet

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all…

— Richard Armitage

If you vote early, great. If you vote on Election Day, great. If you vote absentee, great. But get out and vote.

— Robert C. O'Brien

We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power…

— Barack Obama

Look, the bottom line is, folks: They [Democrats] are unified. Their single objective is taking us out. We do not have that.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Why does the UK government ignore workplace bullying? Our system of democracy - government and law - is based on the adversarial…

— Tim Field

I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and…

— Craig T. Nelson

My first word for the people of Brazil is the word 'confidence.' Confidence in the values that form the character of our…

— Michel Temer

Our nation is not a fully representative democracy if we do not have a one-person, one-vote method of directly electing our president.…

— Shaun King

You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be…

— Gene Weingarten

In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they…

— Margaret Thatcher

There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up…

— Pankaj Mishra

“...is there any body of citizens in the country who actually welcome and enjoy a General Election?..YES. Those citizens are schoolchildren...attending national…

— Flann O'brien

“Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy…

— D.H. Lawrence

“The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who…

— Neil Postman

The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a…

— Paul Kengor

You notice that the Democrats are totally unified. I mean, you know they're dragging Algore back out? Algore is being dragged out…

— Rush Limbaugh

The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to…

— Charles Krauthammer

I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and…

— Tony Benn

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

— William Beveridge

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the…

— John Cornyn

“Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it”

— Thom Hartmann

Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

— Zach Wamp

If you win an election, you have to govern to fulfill the promises you ran on.

— Zohran Mamdani

A person with noble soul will never cease ignoring the provocation. The nobility of his soul is the only answer to these…

— Ilkin Santak

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is…

— Barack Obama

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,

— Jens Stoltenberg

After the Fall of Saigon, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people fled tyranny to pursue freedom and democracy.

— Michelle Steel

Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

— Joseph Hall

Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.

— Simon Sinek

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

— Robert Fisk

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

— Jon Voight

Republicans in Hollywood hide. I'm challenging them to stand up and have courage. I won't be scared into submission.

— Stacey Dash

Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.

— Yair Lapid