Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
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
It's not like that because the improvisation makes it automatically democratic. No one's leading anything. I didn't have to worry about anyone… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an… — Bruce Morton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I will call not just on Israel, but on the Palestinians, on the Arab States, and the international community to join us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have no problem if you want to be a socialist. But for those people who are in the middle, you know,… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Am I a Democrat? Yes, I'm a Democrat. But at the end of the day, when I take the oath as a… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in the current… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The Democratic party, respective to health care, is like a person who was sent into the store to purchase a gallon of… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There… — Abu Bakar Bashir Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton said we need to bring back vocational education in high school. We need to support community colleges. We need to… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton does very well in Pennsylvania generally. I think she connects with the working white people and all kinds of people… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue.… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Children aren't born with the techniques of democratic problem solving, but they are born with one of its key components - the… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
We're getting to the point where we're impinging on democratic institutions in this country and I think, you know, it takes a… — William Weld Copy Share Image
Reports the CIA has concluded that Russian hacking of Democratic emails was aimed at helping Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton, a step… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Last night, John McCain said that under the Democratic health care plan, a bureaucrat would stand between you and your doctor, as… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
When I saw Fannie Lou Hamer speech I said, "Well, how did this Democratic Party that Miss Hamer is talking about, become… — Leah D. Daughtry Copy Share Image
To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Democratic Party elites have been caught red-handed, sabotaging a grassroots campaign that tried to bring huge numbers of young people, independents and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image