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 Copy Share Image
Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at… — Howie Winter Copy Share Image
Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Where Democrats have a real toehold to criticize Republicans is that families still feel very financially fragile. About 2 in 5 adults… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they're successful; most times, they're not. But the system… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure… — John R. Commons 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
I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. We know from the French, their wonderfully neurotic presidents, that our hands are… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
“The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities,… — John Francis Hylan Copy Share Image
What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly,… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I think on the efficiency level, not only the distribution level, capitalism is a flawed system. It probably has the same virtues… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
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'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
What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The good news is I think there are a lot of young people certainly who were involved in my campaigns, and I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The [media] coverage is always, "Will [Democrats] get it? Will they get what they want?" And, really, it's even worse than that.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
My first word for the people of Brazil is the word 'confidence.' Confidence in the values that form the character of our… — Michel Temer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Why does the UK government ignore workplace bullying? Our system of democracy - government and law - is based on the adversarial… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
Look, the bottom line is, folks: They [Democrats] are unified. Their single objective is taking us out. We do not have that.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power… — Barack Obama 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
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
“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
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
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
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“A democracy based on fear is not a democracy. Fear of the commies, fear of the terrorists—it never ends! You know who… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
“Think this trend is the exclusive doing of the Republicans? Think again. The average income of the top 400 tripled during the… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
Individual actions are important because in any democracy, citizens need to feel agency. If you feel powerless, totally powerless, it's psychologically dangerous. — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
![“The [media] coverage is always, "Will [Democrats] get it? Will they get what they want?" And, really, it's even worse than that. It's not, "Will they get it?" It's "How soon will they get it, and what are the villains gonna do to try to stop them from getting it?"” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc3/rush-limbaugh-28_coverage_the-media-coverage-is-always-will-democr_2488994.jpg)
![“Look, the bottom line is, folks: They [Democrats] are unified. Their single objective is taking us out. We do not have that. Look at what's happening on our side. I mean, it's atrocious. It is actually embarrassing.” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1b/rush-limbaugh-28_bottom_look-the-bottom-line-is-folks-they-democ_767160.jpg)
