Democratic Quotes

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There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for… — Sean Connery
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. — Calvin Coolidge
No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party. — Richard J. Daley
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. — Salvador Dali
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free. — Jim DeMint
You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political… — Jim DeMint
I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position. — Alan Dershowitz
If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory… — John Dingell
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the… — Umberto Eco
Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it. — Clint Eastwood
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a… — Marian Wright Edelman
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a… — Friedrich Engels
The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police… — Oriana Fallaci
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all… — Federico Fellini
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like… — Joshua Foer
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy… — Malcolm Forbes
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in… — Stephen Harper
I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of… — Harold Ford, Jr.
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress. — Zaha Hadid
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. — Victor Hugo
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared… — Aldous Huxley
Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is… — David Icke
We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private… — Jesse Jackson

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