Democratic Quotes · Page 28

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic…

— David Blunkett

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

— David Foster Wallace

Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.

— Jack Kemp

I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and…

— Tony Benn

I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all…

— Richard Armitage

Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement.

— Van Jones

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there…

— Karl Rove

Like most Israelis, I know very little about the Arabs. We just look down on them and see them as a threat.…

— Tom Segev

No matter which party is in the White House, doubt in America's democratic institutions rattles our nation to its core. This should…

— Patrick Murphy

Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs…

— Daniel Pipes

I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters…

— Robert Casey

I think that the Democratic Party has been ill served by identity politics. I think that ironically evangelicals have now bought into…

— Frank Schaeffer

Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic…

— Sharan Burrow

Hillary has her work cut out for her. Her Democratic challengers are a 'Who's Who' of 'who's that?' Jim Webb, Lincoln Chafee,…

— Cecily Strong

The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring…

— Karl Radek

In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives…

— Jan Gehl

The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

We got the first WikiLeaks publication of documents hacked and stolen by Russian government sources from the DNC, from the Democratic Party,…

— Rachel Maddow

I do a lot of pivoting. There was one cover I did of Donald Trump, after he won Iowa, it seemed like…

— Barry Blitt

It's interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean…

— Brian Jones

Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative…

— Adam Michnik

I still oppose "Visit Myanmar Year," and I would ask tourists to stay away. Burma is not going to run away. They…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The United States had eight years of Barack Obama. He made it incredibly clear that he was a right-wing Democrat. He cited…

— Avi Lewis

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

— James Hansen

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is…

— Jim DeMint

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written…

— Jack Kemp

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

— Alan Parker

The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Is there's always an idea that the party will continue the movement but that movement always dies inside the Democratic Party.

— Jill Stein

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

— Anthony Trollope

It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.

— Sarah MacLean

For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.

— Annie Dillard

The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is…

— Terence McKenna

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

— Henri La Fontaine

Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.

— Margaret Atwood

Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you…

— Lauren Beukes

Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

— John W. Gardner

The Washington Post said that 50% of the contributors of the Republican Party were Jewish and 70% of the Democratic Party. That's…

— David Duke