Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy. — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps. — Ricardo Alarcon Copy Share Image
Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else. — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible. — Ahmed Chalabi Copy Share Image
Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people? — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy,… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his… — Mike McCurry Copy Share Image
Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
We fear the past, present and future. We fear the unknown, we fear not having enough, losing what we have, not having… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“Process tells us how. Purpose tells us why. But in reality, it is academic to draw a line between them, they are… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
I do think that Republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of Republicans, that they in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
“Conventional belief holds that after triumphing over a mid-career bout with polio, FDR went on to serve two vigorous terms as gov-… — Steven Lomazow Copy Share Image
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or… — Mark Mazower Copy Share Image
Every time the Tories are in government, our democracy takes a battering. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
There may not be much difference between Democrats and Republicans anymore. — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
