Democratic Quotes · Page 32

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy,

— R.J. Rushdoony

Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.

— Reuven Rivlin

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but…

— Mark Twain

No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.

— Amartya Sen

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.

— Kesha

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

— Jimmy Carter

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

— Garry Kasparov

Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The Israelis should understand that it is in their long-term interest to have a democratic Egypt as a neighbor, and that it…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade…

— Russell Shorto

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override…

— Bill Richardson

Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone…

— Gloria Steinem

We were on the way to democracy. We didn't say that we are fully democratic, we were on the way, we were…

— Bashar al-Assad

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this…

— George W. Bush

Remember we had two Democratic houses of Congress along with the [Barack] Obama administration that laid out those policies before they lost…

— Jill Stein

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time…

— Charles Krauthammer

The democratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same…

— Horace Kallen

What is absolutely clear is that if Trump is the nominee, Republicans cannot win. Maybe they can't win with Rubio or Cruz…

— Bret Stephens

The Democratic Party says we're inclusive, but it's clear sometimes we are not as inclusive. People see hypocrisy, they don't see alignment…

— Sam Rasoul

Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard…

— Paul Krugman

I know Donald's [Trump] very praiseworthy of Vladimir Putin, but Putin is playing a really tough, long game here. And one of…

— Hillary Clinton

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup…

— Marco Rubio

We had the opposition of virtually the entire Democratic leadership in every state in this country.

— Bernie Sanders

Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).

— Mike Curran

Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.

— Ali Abdullah Saleh

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

— Condoleezza Rice

As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had…

— Ilham Aliyev

India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

— Samantha Power

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

— Ryan Shapiro

"Democracy" means nothing else other than, "rule of the people", in Greek. There is nothing democratic about the political concepts of the…

— Andre Vltchek

I profoundly believe that the Democratic Party is the only vehicle we have to put a check on Donald Trump.

— Steve Schmidt

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people…

— Anonymous

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

— Jose Saramago

All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms.

— Martin Frost

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Yes, I'll stand up to the party if they're wrong and they aren't going the right way for people in Pennsylvania. But…

— Joe Sestak

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal…

— Nelson Mandela