And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this… — Ahmed Chalabi Copy Share Image
I believe devoutly that the national election is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament of democracy. And I really… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy. — David Mixner Copy Share Image
When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Democratic transitions do not succeed suddenly, and, conversely, they do not fail in one moment either. There are, in retrospect, important inflection… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that… — Birgitta Jonsdottir Copy Share Image
India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Defending democracy" also sounds fine; but to defend democracy by military means, one must be militarily efficient and one cannot become militarily… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages… Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
When I turn on the news in Paris, the way Syria is covered is different from the way it is covered in… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
I believe that in order for our democratic system to work as intended, the average person must have faith in their government.… — Elissa Slotkin Copy Share Image
“People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape, after… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
“We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry,… — Henry A. Giroux Copy Share Image
Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and… — George Will Copy Share Image
Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“The real origin of the democratic spirit - and most likely, many democratic institutions - lies precisely in those spaces of improvisation… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Our system has adopted universal suffrage, which points toward open and easy access to the ballot, but our heritage in political exclusivity… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Athletes have the same rights everybody else does. If there is a strength in our democracy, it's that we are encouraged to… — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
The Republic is one and can't be divided: That's the Constitution! It means the Republic can't ground its action on local community… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the Doha Round is the most important thing that we can do to reduce inequalities, create opportunities, and develop… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
In a multi-party democracy, many issues which you want - or do not want - will be raised. It is for us… — Nirmala Sitharaman Copy Share Image
In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Of course I want to lead [Tory] party. Of course I want to lead this party in order to put forward an… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image