Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
There are people working their butts off trying to save our republic and save democracy from the likes of powerful people in… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum… — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
Mr. Putin didn't invent American partisanship, but his lies and propaganda have fed it, giving rise to extremists like Mrs. Greene, who… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
One of the frustrations of the Republicans is that they have been mostly unsuccessful in equating the word Clinton with Mafia, which,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living… — Tim Soutphommasane Copy Share Image
Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage.… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite… — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“not the old trees, not even the old memories. Clustering traditions had fled in the white blaze of electricity; the quaint brick… — Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow Copy Share Image
Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument;… — Wolfgang Thierse Copy Share Image
Voting by mail has a long, venerable tradition in this country, most notably the election of 1864, when 150,000 Union soldiers sent… — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
“once the Republicans won control of North Carolina’s general assembly. In a matter of months, they enacted conservative policies that private think… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great event which has… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are… — Miguel Gomes Copy Share Image
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new… — Ed Gillespie Copy Share Image
Obama has offered no solutions; his Democratic majority in the Senate has failed to produce a budget in 1,200 days; and they… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't… — Jon Runyan Copy Share Image
Nobody who's thought about politics or democracy over the thousands of years that people have been thinking about democracy hasn't come up… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Whether we're Democrats, Republicans, or independents - it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
We defeated communism in part by showing the world that a commitment to democracy and expanding economic opportunity makes people's lives better… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“any given system is as good as the next. First, we call it Christianity, then democracy, and now we call it the… — Juli Zeh Copy Share Image
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What makes the BJP or its government of Modi a brand for the elections - it is some content that makes the… — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what… — Michael Pare Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. They're troublemaking… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy. — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
It's easy to design expensive products. But there's that product democracy that I believe very strongly in to make something affordable for… — Joy Mangano Copy Share Image
Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to… — Jacques Verges Copy Share Image
Free and fair elections are a bedrock of American democracy, and the IC remains vigilant against the various activities by China, as… — John Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
