Democracy Quotes · Page 94

I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.

— Bernie Sanders

Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.

— Milton Berle

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

— Linda Lingle

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

— Anonymous

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

— George Will

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

— Nicola Sturgeon

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy.…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“After 2012, Republicans controlled all 11 state legislatures of the former Confederacy, and their campaign tactics centered more than ever on depicting…

— Ian Haney López

Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but…

— Paulo Freire

How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like…

— Mark Danner

If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values…

— Bill Delahunt

“This is the cycle of a dynamic society. Equality is never a final state, democracy never a stable equilibrium: they are processes,…

— Christopher Hayes

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny…

— Thomas Frank

I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very…

— Evgeny Morozov

One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at…

— Emanuel Cleaver

A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a…

— James Madison

I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former…

— Vicente Fox

“Where democracy – as an evident necessity – has to be organized through representation, actors coincide with groups-interests. In a representative democracy…

— Leo Klinkers

“There can be no real political democracy unless there is something approaching an economic democracy,” he wrote. “There can be neither political…

— Ganesh Sitaraman

We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Today, all across this country there are going to be rallies led by Democrats and others to fight against the devastating impact…

— John Lewis

Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, but by their own choice, Puerto Rico is not a state. The relationship has worked well for…

— Anibal Acevedo Vila

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

It looks like they [the Republicans] don't want to win if it means winning with [Donald] Trump. They must really hate Trump…

— Rush Limbaugh

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

John Lewis walked across a bridge, in order to repair the infrastructure of our democracy. A bridge to the future.

— Raphael Warnock

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

— Vladimir Putin

“In a democracy where the ignorant are in the majority, democracy always slides towards autocracy.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I have no love for the Republicans, but the Democrats drive me absolutely crazy.

— Cenk Uygur

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart…

— Vartan Gregorian

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

— Fran Lebowitz

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure…

— Timothy Garton Ash

“I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.”

— Mimsy Sadofsky

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

— Anonymous

The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.

— Mark Shields

Democracy is worth having, but it's something that you have to work on, you have to fight for.

— Lloyd Austin

Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me.

— Anonymous