Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system… — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Tradition has to be retaken by the liberal forces, so that they can show their values of tolerance and democracy not as… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that… — Charles R. Chamberlain Copy Share Image
After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
“Democracy is not a good by itself. It is completely dependent upon the nature of the people, both for its efficacy and… — G.M. Mes Copy Share Image
Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
This democracy... The elections in Iraq were held despite the American opposition. It was the will of the Iraqi people and the… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Copy Share Image
“Liberalism and Democracy were pre-eminently political concepts, and, since the great majority of the original adherents of both maintained the right of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political… — B.H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
If the resistance is going to bring Trump down, it will require Democrats to follow the people, not the other way around.… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
The stakes are geopolitical in nature and I believe that democracies are - people want to live in free societies, democracies are… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When Republicans are down, in disarray, feeling blue, they turn to a tried-and-true elixir, sort of a Doctor Feelgood medicine for them.… — Paul Gigot Copy Share Image
There's a reason that you hear something like 90 percent of our country wants universal background checks, but we can't get it… — MJ Hegar Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Thing for masses does not have a soul. Everything for masses is designed for stamped people with wooden heads. Wood is not… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically,… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
[Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people… — Paul Laxalt Copy Share Image
There is greater income inequality in the United States than in any other industrialized country. Yes, the debt is a problem that… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources… They enlarge his… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Democrats are calling Christine O'Donnell 'the Sarah Palin of the East.' Really? She's a loud, emotionally unstable woman from Delaware. That's not… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
We've got to force the Democrats to get a spine. If they don't want to have a spine, we should throw them… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“We are on the precipice of history… a moment where prospects that seemed unattainable are more possible than ever before. Unions, Equality,… — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think Republicans need to do a better job of reaching out to everyone in the United States. Politics is always about… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I fortunately know very many people, and there are many, many more that I don't know and many politicians who stand up… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think there's a dark and twisted idea of democracy that everybody is as interesting as everybody else. So we mustn't make… — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
![“This democracy... The elections in Iraq were held despite the American opposition. It was the will of the Iraqi people and the religious authorities. [The elections] were the result of pressure by Ayatollah Sistani, by the Iraqi religious authorities, and by the fighting forces in Iraq on America…” quote by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90b/akbar-hashemi-rafsanjani-20078_america_this-democracy-the-elections-in-iraq-wer_1954596.png)
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