Democratic Quotes · Page 37

The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic…

— Rudolph Rummel

I think Obama has redefined the Democratic Party. It used to be the party of acid, amnesty, and abortion, and now it's…

— Ann Coulter

Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten…

— Peggy Noonan

Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one…

— Jeremy Corbyn

To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.

— John F. Kennedy

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

— Milton Friedman

Monica Langley of the "Wall Street Journal" is reporting that Donald Trump's strategy is essentially two-pronged. that he's trying to use the…

— Anderson Cooper

If you are going to stick to the truth then you need to keep your distance from the Chinese government and indeed…

— Liao Yiwu

What I want to try to do is unify the two wings of the Democratic Party. What's considered the more progressive wing…

— Barack Obama

Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is…

— Russell Smith

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted…

— Tom Coburn

Why should the Democratic and Republican parties be in charge of the debates, especially at a time when the largest block of…

— Jill Stein

I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's…

— Eric Massa

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the…

— Joe Biden

It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions…

— Revilo P. Oliver

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage…

— Walter Lippmann

The Democratic Party represents the American brain, and the Republicans represent not the American heart, or soul, but the American gut. The…

— Martin Amis

I've heard [Bernie] Sanders comments, and it's really caused me to wonder who's left in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.…

— Hillary Clinton

What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory…

— Walter Lippmann

Faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the Libyan people, the United States and our friends…

— Barack Obama

I always love to see a Democratic party in America. I've heard people's reservations about the situation between choosing between Hillary and…

— KT Tunstall

Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

— Eric Alterman

More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course,…

— Charles Bukowski

If pigs could fly, yes, of course I would vote for the Democratic Party, but pigs don't fly.

— Jill Stein

The question now is how best to help the Iraqi people build a democratic and free Iraqi society that ensures respect for…

— Mary Robinson

Football is probably the most democratic human activity. It belongs to everyone... to poor and rich, illiterate and educated, to all races,…

— Haris Pasovic

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor…

— Patrick Leahy

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

— Judy Woodruff

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

— George Bernard Shaw

Experts are saying that President Bush's goal now is to politically humiliate Saddam Hussein. Why don't we just make him the next…

— Jay Leno

Any government that likes to call themselves democratic should welcome Snowden and allow him to live in their country.

— Pavel Durov

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

— Shimon Peres

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

— Hal Draper

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

— Andrei Sakharov

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure…

— Jane Harman

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

— June Jordan