Democracy Quotes · Page 79

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

— George Bernard Shaw

Democrats love employees, it's employers they hate.

— Paul Tsongas

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

— Jamie Dimon

The Democrats never fight about who is more like Jimmy Carter.

— Marco Rubio

We want a country which is not isolated and where democracy rules.

— Asma Jahangir

The State of Israel is a democratic country with a rule of law.

— Yoav Gallant

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

— Ramsey Clark

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

— Katharine Graham

I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy.

— Hasan Minhaj

I think that if the Postal Service dies, it will be the end of democracy as we know it.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

— Mark Twain

“Democracy in a country where the public is uneducated is no different from having a dictatorship or an elected king.”

— O.Z. Livaneli

Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

— James Lovelock

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

— James Monroe

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

— Warren Christopher

“Integrity, in my view, starts with the individual human being and grows in a compounded manner from there. The citizen must be…

— Robert David Steele

I think the systems that we have in place, which are run by local election officials, actually will be found to work…

— Matthew Dunlap

Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent…

— Keith Olbermann

I had the great honour and privilege of being the first Muslim leader of any western democracy, and yet it is increasingly…

— Humza Yousaf

I really rebel against this idea that politics has to be a place full of ego and where you're constantly focused on…

— Jacinda Ardern

“New political systems and philosophies were imported into the Near East under the general term democracy and grafted artificially into a society…

— Gerald De Gaury

According to a new poll, Republicans are more likely to have a doughnut for breakfast, while Democrats prefer to eat bagels and…

— Jimmy Fallon

If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American…

— June Jordan

“I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776,…

— Thomas Jefferson

The real problem is the total capitulation of German social democracy to capitalism, reflected and symbolized by actual extreme center coalition governments…

— Tariq Ali

I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be…

— Mort Kondracke

“We make sense of the variability in civic imaginations by observing that they cluster around three strong sets of discourses: concern with…

— Anonymous

The Constitution of our country [was] formed by the Fathers of liberty... Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with that of priestcraft,…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

India's democracy where over 1 billion people have a voice in deciding their future is a world example of how governance can…

— Narendra Modi

They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice.…

— Malcolm X

“In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is…

— Mick Hume

It is part of our political thinking that democracy is a battle of ideas.

— Mehbooba Mufti

I am rather proud of my modest contribution to bringing democracy home.

— Claire Fox

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

— Lewis Black

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.

— Donald Trump

A basic tenet of healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency

— Peter Fenn

Struggles do not end when countries attempt the transition to democracy.

— Hillary Clinton

Democrats don't have a lot of time to turn the party around.

— Susan Davis

Protecting our democracy shouldn't be a partisan issue.

— Tom Malinowski