Caress Quote by Charles Ferguson

If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Now we are immersed in deep democratic revolutions, for the recovery of our resources, and to transform a resource into a basic human right.…

— Evo Morales

We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

— Harri Holkeri

We've got to rescue our democracy by using it.

— Annie Leonard

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.

— Stevie Jackson

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

— Jon Voight

One of the things that happens that's challenging within the democratic process is that people say, 'Look at this failure, so we should totally…

— Reid Hoffman

We still have a lot of work to do to protect our own democracy.

— John F. Kerry

What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular.

— Keith Ellison