Democracy Quotes · Page 40

I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.

— Ari Fleischer

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

— Noam Chomsky

Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.

— Hugh Laurie

Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

— John McDonnell

“I bet the Republic hasn't seen the last of you.”

— Marie Lu

What's important here is that the Republicans agree with [Donald Trump].

— Hillary Clinton

The fight for democracy relies on community support.

— Joshua Wong

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

— Gijs de Vries

Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Brexit vote, the presidential elections in the U.S., a number of the other regional political movements - that's not a flash…

— James P. Gorman

Democratic socialism means that our government does everything it can to create a full employment economy.

— Bernie Sanders

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

— Stanley Fish

I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

— Pauly Shore

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you…

— Steven Pinker

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

— Narendra Modi

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from…

— Bill Bradley

I've listened to Republicans say over and over again that we should focus on enforcing the laws that we have. The great…

— Chris Murphy

It's not that we must convince people to believe in democracy as a notion or as a political aspiration; it's that we…

— Zohran Mamdani

The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor…

— Charles Barkley

A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to…

— Hillary Clinton

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people…

— Marilyn Manson

[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything…

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know…

— Jim Bolger

People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything…

— Donald Tsang

No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Therefore, democratic referenda are the best mechanisms for maximizing social welfare in a world consisting of only a single town. Oddly, when…

— John H. Miller

We are seeing a working-class, a middle class, which over the last three decades has seen their wages and income stagnate, while…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

“But Muslims now find themselves in a world shaped by western theories and western values. If we are to consider how Islamic…

— Anonymous

Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably…

— Pierre Trudeau

Voting in this country has essentially been relegated to a very fledging group of election officials, who receive no training and operate…

— DeForest Soaries

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms…

— Bertrand Russell

Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

— Benazir Bhutto

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

— Anonymous

Exaggeration of the national values is the character of dictators.

— Ilkin Santak

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

— Donald Trump

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

— Ted Yoho

Democracy died in my eyes when I saw these huge lies based on false hopes

— Mattias Konradsson

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

— Clare Boothe Luce