Democracy Quotes · Page 99

If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

— Chrystia Freeland

If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Duty of a citizen to the defective state is betraying it. Because the defective state has already betrayed its citizens.

— Ilkin Santak

It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

— Ralph Nader

We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.

— Anker Jørgensen

You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

— Barack Obama

“The language of law should be simple and straight, if you expect people to obey it.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as…

— David Blunkett

All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These…

— Carl Paladino

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise…

— Gore Vidal

The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it's taken on a…

— Bill Moyers

We must add our voices to those who cry out that there is a standard below which we will not allow human…

— Hannah G. Solomon

This [2016] is not simply another four-year election. This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether…

— Donald Trump

That is what happened in 2010. The administration and the leadership of the Republicans thought, 'Well, we're making a deal together; we're…

— Austan Goolsbee

In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required…

— Gore Vidal

Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into…

— James Connolly

“Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for…

— Friedrich Engels

The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because…

— Lewis Henry Morgan

It is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and…

— Paulo Freire

“What hand is holding the voting "trump card" that sold the peoples' souls? It starts with a knowledge of truth and the…

— Tracey Bond

It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in…

— Paul Wolfowitz

“Agood part of the British case for having created India’s political unity and democracy lies in the evolution of three of democracy’s…

— Shashi Tharoor

“Elections are run by the public relations industry. Its primary task is commercial advertising, which is designed to undermine markets by creating…

— Noam Chomsky

The right to religious freedom and the right to vote are both fundamental to our democracy.

— Lois Frankel

European democracy, for me, is the best form of government invented by mankind.

— Petro Poroshenko

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the…

— Walter E. Williams

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

— Ralph Nader

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

— Richard Attenborough

“True democracy speaks; it does not shout. It listens to reason, not the roar of populism.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

Conservatives, Republicans have to rebuild public confidence in what we say we are going to do. That is a high hurdle but…

— Kori Schake

I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

— John Fund

The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry.

— Howard Dean

Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster.

— Neil Postman

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national…

— Bill Vaughan

My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for…

— Mike Huckabee

Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

— Anthea Butler

Erasing national borders does not make people safer or more prosperous. It undermines democracy and trades away prosperity.

— Donald Trump

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

— James Russell Lowell

You're guaranteed to have outcomes you like and outcomes you don't like in a democracy.

— John Fetterman