The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should… — George Will Copy Share Image
People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant. — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party would like to see an open independent bipartisan investigation [about hacking]. — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys ... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house ... and… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for… — Kendrick Meek Copy Share Image
Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so… — Gary North Copy Share Image
Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
A major danger for us Europeans: We must demonstrate that those who have this view of us are mistaken, that we can… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
Salazar, Ken Salazar, who is a big advocate for the TPP and for fracking. So, you know, since when have we learned… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Top Democrats laying down their markers for how they'll work with President [Donald] Trump, but who will take on the job of… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice. — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I would ask [protesters] to please respect - I'd ask them to please respect the democratic process. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image