Democratic Quotes · Page 20

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential…

— Martin O'Malley

You can't say Hillary Clinton is not evolving as a candidate. And boy is she trying very hard to move to where…

— Chuck Todd

You cannot win the democratic nomination if you are not trusted on the most important issue to democratic voters.

— Krystal Ball

I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

— Gina McCarthy

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

— Barbara Jordan

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

— Will Rogers

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the…

— Karl Rove

The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They…

— Eugene V. Debs

We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work.…

— Ted Cruz

[Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an…

— Jill Stein

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between…

— John Updike

The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that while Democratic…

— Dick Morris

The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever…

— Colin Powell

If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they…

— A. J. P. Taylor

Democratic Senator Harry Reid is expected to make a full recovery after he was exercising with a resistance band that snapped, causing…

— Jimmy Fallon

The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and…

— Saul Alinsky

World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of…

— Joseph Stalin

His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an…

— Bruce Morton

In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Whoever creates an artificial intelligence first has such a distinct military advantage over every other nation on the planet that they will…

— Zoltan Istvan

This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member…

— Mark Shields

Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the…

— Mario Bunge

I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti…

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

— Moby

There is a democratic process in the party, and that can be operated at any time. But am I going to resign?…

— Jeremy Corbyn

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual…

— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

— Nelson Mandela

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

— Murray Levin

In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

— Jacques Verges

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

— Angela Carter

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and…

— Kofi Annan

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

— Dave Mustaine

The most we can hope for is strong marriages. Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic.

— Ann Coulter

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

— Robert Taft

We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.

— Glenn Ford

To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema -…

— Anurag Kashyap