Democracy Quote by Calvin Coolidge

Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you…

— Robert Anton Wilson

In present-day America, expressing reverence for those who serve in uniform is something akin to a religious obligation. Everyone professes to cherish America's "warriors."…

— Andrew Bacevich

Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist…

— Nancy Pelosi

So [Republicans] packed all the Democrats into districts, very Democratic districts. What that's done is made our party urban, more liberal, and so those…

— Collin Peterson

Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part…

— Tony Benn

'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of…

— Bret Stephens

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is,…

— Pete du Pont

“The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results…

— Charles Moore

While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people…

— Benazir Bhutto

I'm going to do everything I can to get myself elected, but that's not enough. I'm going to try to help move the Senate…

— Hillary Clinton

We fight to defend our democratic ideals.

— Lloyd Austin

If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There…

— Kevin Drum