Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it -… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
That issue has been resolved for years now, and it's been resolved for at least two years in Donald Trump's mind. And… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
It’s not just Israel who refuses to speak to Hamas. It’s the whole international community… Most of the democratic world refuses to… — Mark Regev Copy Share Image
Now [in China] within the framework of socialism - which is really social welfare in a social democratic framework - all they… — Harry Magdoff Copy Share Image
One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open,… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource,… — Shirley Hufstedler Copy Share Image
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
We had the opposition of virtually the entire Democratic leadership in every state in this country. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
They knew that Roosevelt and the Democratic party made a difference on them, on their quality of life issues, and they believed… — Richard M. Daley Copy Share Image
It's plain that the American right wing, the Republicans and some sections of the Democratic Party, don't really care about international norms.… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
I spoke to a blogger. It was election time when we were doing the movie and Hillary Clinton was still in the… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Whether railroads or electricity or the Internet, there is always some sense that this is the new, redemptive platform - that finally,… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on… — Edmund Ezra Day Copy Share Image
The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
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