Democracy Quotes · Page 24

“A nation with minimum laws will have maximum laughter.”

— Amit Kalantri

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

— Amy Klobuchar

“You're a part of the order if you're not against it.”

— Saleem Sharma

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

— George R. R. Martin

I don't need anyone's approval for going to elections.

— Ksenia Sobchak

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

— Winston S. Churchill

Obamacare is a crime against democracy.

— Michele Bachmann

Clearly, dirty election rolls can mean dirty elections.

— Tom Fitton

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

Republicans are the real extortionists for holding our economy hostage, wasting time and deceiving voters.

— Anonymous

The Electronic Voting Machines were tampered with in every election since 2014 to defeat the BSP.

— Mayawati

My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.

— Condoleezza Rice

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

— Joe Baca

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

— Anwar Sadat

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

— Pete Domenici

Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect…

— Thurgood Marshall

American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting…

— Peter Ustinov

It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done…

— Sam Graves

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

— Tony Kushner

Our democracy depends on a free and independent press. When politicians call reporting they don't like 'fake news,' they undermine trust in…

— Tina Smith

I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society…

— Roy Jenkins

You have these rap groups talking about 'Fight The Power' and that kind of stuff. What do they mean by that? Fight…

— Eddie Rabbitt

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation,…

— Helen Keller

“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?"…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Democratic institutions awaken and foster a passion for equality which they can never entirely satisfy. This complete equality eludes the grasp of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“This is the beginning of social criticism and one of the beginnings of democratic thought. Most ancient literature on democracy comes from…

— Anonymous

There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the…

— Michael Novak

But, clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do…

— Condoleezza Rice

In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,…

— Edmund Burke

I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm.…

— Ellen Goodman

If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put…

— J. M. Coetzee

We have much better policies than the Democrats do.

— Benjamin Carson

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

— Vladimir Lenin

I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.

— David Stern

“Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.”

— H.L. Mencken

One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.

— Enrique Penalosa

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

— David McCullough

The whole world is hopefully heading toward democracy.

— John Densmore

When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats.

— Bernie Sanders