The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why? — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
I think I bring a perspective that local communities are what make this country great, and they are the laboratories of democracy. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Republicans don't play to win. But Donald Trump always plays to win and he is teaching Republicans how much fun it can… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
“The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. — John Ensign Copy Share Image
Why should the idea of Western liberal democracy automatically imply unregulated free-market capitalism? — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.” — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
Russia's interference in the United States' 2016 election could not have been more different from what the United States does to promote… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to… — Hillary Clinton 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
A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy.… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
If you've worked together with somebody very well, leave-taking is very difficult. But we are all politicians. We all know that democracy… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“For political leaders in a democracy are not revolutionaries or leaders of creative thought. The best of them are those who respond… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
In the early period of Left struggles, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were many different trajectories for the… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image