“Sometimes, small minds seem to take the day. Election fraud. A migratory plague. Less and less surprises us as odd.” — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote. — Aaron Brown Copy Share Image
If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist,… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I am not Left or Right. I believe in nationalism, patriotism, the federal structure, democracy, and the poor. — Mamata Banerjee Copy Share Image
What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and… — Jean-Pierre Raffarin Copy Share Image
The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
When I started in this business, everybody said the Democrats were the better communicators because they sounded like social workers, and Republicans… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to… — Jim Jordan Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to the Trump movement is that Republicans in office demoralize our base because the only way we win now… — Matt Gaetz Copy Share Image
Demography isn't destiny. It's an opportunity. Joe Biden, Arizona Democrats and activists seized that opportunity in Arizona. We showed how Democrats can… — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We think about democracy, and that's the word that Americans love to use, 'democracy,' and that's how we characterize our system. But… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it… — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
“summary, I personally think that, as I said in The Blue Book of The John Birch Society, democracy is a weapon of… — Robert Welch Copy Share Image
Idea of holding each other’s hands at the Women’s March—it feels like we are being invited to do that every day. So… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
We must practice revolutionary democracy in every aspect of our Party life. Every responsible member must have the courage of his responsibilities,… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
