Democratic Quotes · Page 14

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

— Harry S. Truman

The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.

— Adam Rapp

So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

— John F. Kerry

If India is not too democratic, it will be like China in terms of development.

— Mahathir Mohamad

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

— Noam Chomsky

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

— Jack Kemp

Not every Democratic idea is a good one; not every Republican idea is a bad one.

— Jim Gray

Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling…

— Anthony Daniels

The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a…

— Saxby Chambliss

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make…

— Natan Sharansky

I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States.

— Bernie Sanders

I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.

— Caroline Kennedy

I come from people who dreamed of a free democratic system. I believe so strongly in the process and equal access.

— Ilhan Omar

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

— John Negroponte

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a…

— Amy Goodman

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only…

— Clare Boothe Luce

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth…

— Malcolm Forbes

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods…

— Ai Weiwei

People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that…

— Tony Benn

“Well what are you looking at me for? If this is a democratic process, I've been outvoted," he said in exasperation. "This…

— Joseph Lallo

Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as **** fighting and dog fighting. We are going to use…

— Wayne Pacelle

Democratic candidate John Kerry on Tuesday chose fellow Senator John Edwards to be his running mate. Asked about Edwards' lack of foreign…

— Dennis Miller

De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for…

— Saul Bellow

I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social…

— Albert Einstein

Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that…

— Noam Chomsky

We have to have a shared prosperity. We have to make that our job number one. People want a better economic playing…

— Keith Ellison

Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to…

— Ronald Reagan

laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's…

— Margaret Mead

It used to be that the working class, broadly speaking - Americans who worked with their hands, who worked in factories, who…

— George Packer

I want something else; a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism.…

— Alice Walker

When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth…

— Thomas Piketty

The Internet is the more democratic media them last times. And for being anarchical, it's open to all manifestations, artistic also.

— Katya Chamma

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic…

— Koichiro Matsuura

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where…

— Michael Ignatieff

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our…

— Wallace Stegner

I would ask [protesters] to please respect - I'd ask them to please respect the democratic process.

— Rudy Giuliani

You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living,…

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

As Gerhard Schröder said in the Oval Office, a democratic Iraq is important not only to Germany, but to Europe, and he's…

— George W. Bush

He is racist, he's homophobic, he's xenophobic and he's a sexist. He's the perfect Republican candidate. [California Democratic Party chairman about Pat…

— Bill Press