Democratic Quotes · Page 12

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

— Peter Senge

A louder government with less journalism does not enrich our democratic process.

— Ari Melber

My family is democratic in the true sense.

— Abhinav Shukla

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

— Kurt Russell

The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.

— Nancy Pelosi

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

— Jack Kemp

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

— Raymond Kelly

I've got Democratic skin, but a Republican pocket.

— Marlon Wayans

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

— Ma Ying-jeou

The reality is that the Democratic Party is still the party of John F. Kennedy in many parts of the country. And…

— Jessica Tarlov

Restaurants should be democratic; you shouldn't be made to feel privileged for getting a table or being lectured by the waiter.

— Marco Pierre White

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which…

— Randal Marlin

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

— Felix Frankfurter

We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.

— Barack Obama

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

— Van Jones

What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that…

— Michael Novak

...the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are beholden to industry. They always will be. And, the American people are fooled when…

— Benjamin Spock

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line…

— Leo Szilard

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has been positioning himself to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Hillary once developed a…

— Jimmy Fallon

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked…

— John Barrasso

Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and…

— Shimon Peres

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

As we have done throughout history, we will remain a country that will speak up for what we believe in, support the…

— Penny Mordaunt

As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture…

— Wynton Marsalis

There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in…

— Richard Rorty

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Give the money directly to people who work hard. Instead of taking the money from the business and then filtering it through…

— Mark Helprin

I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80…

— Ronald Reagan

University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy…

— Henry Giroux

More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How…

— Walt Whitman

A permanent and sustainable solution to all the problems facing working people is possible by taking the biggest companies into democratic ownership,…

— Kshama Sawant

I've always lived in a democratic society.

— Pierre Trudeau

Technology has made music ultimately more democratic.

— Dennis DeYoung

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

— Edward de Bono

“Citizens without brain leads to democracy on drugs.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.

— Yasser Arafat

The Democratic Party has a religion problem and they better fix it.

— Tom Suozzi

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

— Christopher Eccleston

When you look at the Democratic presidencies you see resurgence in the economy.

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz