The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. AND… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish.… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I did not suggest that Iran is a democracy; just the opposite. I talked about it being a repressive theocracy. What I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," Helena continued, "I have a terrible dream of the future. Not now, but presently, people may forget their loyalty to their… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The modern left proves how prescient the Framers were. The left’s class warfare strategies mean that election campaigns are actually conducted against… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
David McKnight gives us the tools to work out where we stand - and what unites rather than divides us - as… — Margo Kingston Copy Share Image
I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent -… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The membership survey was a great moment for inner-party democracy. We can't go back, nor do we want to. Our members are… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to the boss,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
I am not a person of the left. But one of the things, the central idea of democracy is that you have… — David Frum Copy Share Image
In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Britain and Churchill fought not solely in the name of liberty and democracy, but also with the intention of maintaining the empire,… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“Tolerance means to have the heart open to all differences; it is the honorable attitude of receiving another's opinion in order to… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
Why aren't Democrats voting against President [Donald] Trump's cabinet nominees en masse? Is it because they're just a bunch soft-headed Beltway lifers… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
In a democracy, everyone has a right to put forward one's views. But people resorting to violent demonstrations in the name of… — Yogi Adityanath Copy Share Image
Democrats are not a national party. They have lost governorships, state legislatures, mayoralties. They have lost 1,500 seats since elections, 2010, '12,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If you took the profit out of war, there would be no war. What the hell do you think war is? You… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Democrats give away their old clothes; Republicans wear theirs. Republicans employ exterminators; Democrats step on the bugs. Democrats eat the fish they… — Sean Donlon Copy Share Image
“[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity… — Irving Copi Copy Share Image
I believe that democracy is about values before it is about voting. These values must be nurtured within society and integrated into… — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Every time we go into the voting booth, we are choosing the moral and spiritual direction of our nation. That is a… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
Our democracy only works when the official opposition does its job of opposing the government of the day and offers a clear… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
Since the Reagan era, Republicans have prescribed cuts for rich people and corporations as a cure-all. But every time they put their… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
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