Democracy holds little appeal for people who are struggling to survive. — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Domestically, a lot of people think Xi Jinping is becoming Mao Zedong. By giving Hong Kong democracy, people would look at them… — Jimmy Lai Copy Share Image
A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome. — Leopoldo Lopez Copy Share Image
The Democrats - Democrats on board, the Congress said tax policy.But their tax policy was pretty bad, that added $800 billion to… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.” — Eric Robert Morse Copy Share Image
Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Any strategy to promote democracy and human rights must have the fight against corruption at its heart. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
You have to be ready for anything. It's a good reminder about democracy. Voters can tell you to carry on, or chuck… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows… — Al Neuharth Copy Share Image
We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
A system of checks and balances sits at the core of our Constitutional Republic, and few institutions engage in this critical duty… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The United States is a special case, and for me, very interesting. It's studied carefully and we know a lot about it.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Democrats are angry, and they're out of their minds. You know, we're seeing in the Senate, the Senate Democrats objecting to… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When we don't pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The democratic nations that have introduced freedom into their political constitution at the very time when they were augmenting the despotism of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Now the dictatorship or call it the 'Indonesian regime', fully consolidated its power... You see, the West told Indonesians, indirectly of course,… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
If you're always in the company of people who agree with you, you're going to think of people who don't agree with… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
