If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I… — Jonathan Krohn Copy Share Image
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining;… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Anyone who grew up against the background of the Cold War will recall the downfall of the Berlin Wall and the opening… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement… — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
We believe - most polls indicate - a lack of support, a lack of confidence in the ability of the Congress to… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you're not going there thinking "Gee, I gotta pick… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
So we, Democrats, have a responsibility there, every one of us, both to try to treat the Republicans with respect and as… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
As long as our people, youth, businesses and individuals engage the issues of the day civilly in our democracy, and treat their… — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at… — David Frum Copy Share Image
The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror - real or fake, provoked or… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Republicans in the South... are trying to find ways, not so much to block black and brown people from voting, but to… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Republicans are living in a hermetically sealed Republican universe, just as Democrats are. And so they're responding to their own universe, even… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The eradication of the Muslim Brotherhood is nothing less than an abolition of democracy and a guarantee that Arabs will continue living… — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
The Republicans have lost their standards; they've lost their principles... Really, that's why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had… — Ilham Aliyev Copy Share Image
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.… — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Copy Share Image
There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers'… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
“You can't accommodate a hundred different opinions, and you can't ignore them. All you can do is provide people with the illusion… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people,… — Bjork Copy Share Image