It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
America cannot do most of what needs to be done alone. You need friends. And we have good friends around the world.… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy,… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his… — Mike McCurry Copy Share Image
Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
If you'd come to me in 2012, when the last presidential election was raging and we were cooking up ever more complicated… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans, all of us in this grand hall and everybody watching at home, when we vote in this election, we'll… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's… — Robert B. Reich Copy Share Image
The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways. Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious. There… — Rod Rosenstein Copy Share Image
What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
To Democrats, guaranteeing voting rights is a critical part of safeguarding democracy. However, we also recognize that our efforts to do so… — Colin Allred Copy Share Image
I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at… — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image
I think that voting is the number one way that we can actively show up and make a difference, along with basic… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we… — John A. Logan Copy Share Image
Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny… — Carles Puigdemont Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Democrats came into the race with a structural advantage in the Electoral College. Their big blue wall - the states that Democrats… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The 2020 Election is believed to be the most important in our lifetime. Therefore, I've chosen to become more involved in the… — Paul Millsap Copy Share Image
Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of… — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“As James Heartfield, author of The European Union and the End of Politics, noted, to follow such events is to ‘Step through… — Mick Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
“Public access to government information is a fundamental prerequisite to a functioning democracy. A democratic system is based on the notion that… — John Podesta Copy Share Image