India is this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasions working together, seeking their salvation in the framework… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
“Yet democracy is on the whole inferior to aristocracy.92 For it is based on a false assumption of equality; it “arises out… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Any political regime allowing a person to behave obsequiously to it may not be reputable at all. There is no other choice… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true.… — Walter Judd Copy Share Image
What does a political revolution look like? It means that 80 percent of the people vote in national elections, not 40 percent.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“this is the conversation I’ve been having since the 2016 election ended and liberals and progressives have been scrambling to figure out… — Ijeoma Oluo Copy Share Image
Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed: them and us. We are half of the equation. There will not be… — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
James Comey had nine interactions with Bob Mueller after the Donald Trump's election. And in none of those, Comey testified, did he… — Angus King Copy Share Image
“Any human being should be capable of three things to earn such title: live alone, hunt and drive anything with or without… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Our two nations have a lot in common, when you think about it. We were both founded by immigrants escaping religious persecution… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If I and other whistleblowers are sentenced to long years in prison without so much as a chance to explain our motivations… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I think we have enough trouble finding community in this country, and sport does provide that. It is a mediocrisy, the greatest… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
“By itself, partyism is not the most serious threat to democratic self-government. But if it decreases government’s ability to solve serious problems,… — Cass R. Sunstein Copy Share Image
“Voting on things is democratic, yes - but not on deciding on whether or not people should be equal or have human… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way.… — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
Midterms behave very differently than presidential elections. Midterms, for a federal candidate, often times are a referendum on the president, where in… — Mike Coffman Copy Share Image
Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Since 2000, Republican policies have suppressed Democratic voting; since 2010, Republican gerrymandering has given the Republicans a heavy systematic advantage in Congress;… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
If you say in advance there is going to be a main candidate and then that doesn't count later, then that's going… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
We don't know yet how to build a society which is environmentally sustainable, which is shareable with everybody on the planet, which… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I very happily stand for the right of every man and woman in Pennsylvania to have their voice heard in elections. And… — Katie McGinty Copy Share Image
Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Democracy' was a sociological term in Russia in 1917, denoting the masses, the lower class, at least as strongly as it did… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
In the immediate aftermath of the civil-rights movement, Democrats marketed liberalism to us as fashionable, sophisticated and liberating. Today it needs a… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“Suspected and Denounced enemy of the Republic, Aristocrat, one of a family of tyrants, one of a race proscribed, for that they… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year. — Jeff Miller Copy Share Image
