You know, the Chinese don't have a democracy, they don't share our values. — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. — Walter Winchell Copy Share Image
Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable… — Georgi Plekhanov Copy Share Image
What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator. — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. — DeForest Soaries Copy Share Image
All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving 'tax cuts' to people who don't pay taxes. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“De Tocqueville's thrust is that it's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Our democratic culture does not prioritise protecting an individual's right to live life her way, especially if that is not our way… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain.… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
I'm humbled to have been named to Chair of the Communications Subcommittee, and I look forward to working with my Democratic and… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
Elections are zero-sum games. That means that there's always one winner and a lot of losers. If you just get one more… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
“Literate, affluent, self-confident people do not like living under either dictatorship or chaos. As more nations move into modernity and find themselves… — Oliver H. Woshinsky Copy Share Image
What does a political revolution look like? It means that 80 percent of the people vote in national elections, not 40 percent.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“this is the conversation I’ve been having since the 2016 election ended and liberals and progressives have been scrambling to figure out… — Ijeoma Oluo Copy Share Image
In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“We find that at present the human race is divided into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
“I, too, like yourself was a good party man: my party was that of the Church; I was ultramontane. Your party system… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In my view, it is not a question of Trump having won the election, it's a question of Democrats having lost the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
