Democratic Quotes
1368 Democratic quotes by 898 unique authors
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One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people…
— George Meany
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I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.
— Gina McCarthy
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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to…
— Dannel Malloy
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When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want…
— Rick Moranis
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Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand,…
— Chiang Kai-shek
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Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to…
— Sharan Burrow
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There's a big conservative press unabashedly and for the Democrats and even people to the left of the Democratic party, there's almost virtually no outlets…
— William J. Clinton
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Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.
— Vaclav Havel
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If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't…
— Max De Pree
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I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80 percent of the…
— Ronald Reagan
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What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
— Dave Mustaine
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The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.
— Ornette Coleman
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
— Jack Kemp
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Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of…
— James Fenton
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We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.
— Kurt Russell
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The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.
— Dick Armey
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I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.
— Harvey Weinstein
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Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or…
— Birch Bayh
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Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.
— Gary Bauer
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no…
— Haley Barbour
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Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being.
— James Belushi
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