To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
“But the disposition to disagree, to reject and to dissent - however irritating it may be when taken to extremes - is… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
For much of its history, Virginia, the 'cradle of American democracy,' failed to live up to our ideals. All too often, our… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
Were busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest… — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
Each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate"… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
Our president seems determined to do anything he can with the Russians and the Russians hate - but a report and hates… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“And when voters lose control of these important decisions, they risk the hijacking of their democracy by ignorant demagogues, or the more… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
“The success of totalitarian movements among the masses meant the end of two illusions of democratically ruled countries in general and of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Instead of being a Woodrow Wilson democracy promoter we ought to hunt down our enemies and kill ISIS rather than creating opportunities… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“Real democrats always insist that England is an aristocratic country. Real aristocrats always insist (for some mysterious reason) that it is a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
On Immigration policy and reform [Republicans] are on the wrong side of the track. ... They would have you believe that if… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A… — Keith Preston Copy Share Image
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I've heard way too often that Democrats are weak and that kind of stuff, and that's just not true. It's just not… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U.S. ranks… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from… — DeForest Soaries Copy Share Image
India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I do still think there is a big disconnect between Republicans in Washington, D.C., and Republicans everywhere I go. When you start… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If markets are leading us in directions that we, as a democratic society, decide are not compatible with our vision of liberty… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
If I were a Democrat, I'd siphon the power of states to the federal government. I'd ignore the Constitution and prevent states… — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
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