Commentators Quote by Susan Sontag

I cannot overemphasize this, the attitude, the defeatist attitude that everybody on the Republican side had.

— Rush Limbaugh

We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt.

— Caroline Lucas

We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals…

— Filipp Golikov

“If the parliamentary regime, even in the period of "peaceful", stable development, was a rather crude method of discovering the opinion of the country,…

— Leon Trotsky

The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our ranks. But…

— Lavrentiy Beria

“When reason, common sense, and decency are assaulted often enough, then personality is crippled, and human intelligence disintegrates or is warped. The barrier between…

— Frank Ellis

“The duty of Republicans in the current crisis, he told them, was “simply that of magnanimity. We have learned, heretofore, the practice of patience…

— Walter Stahr

“Vladimir Putin portrayed himself as an avowed democrat. And yet even then, at the dawn of democracy in Russia, he warned that the imperative…

— Steven Lee Myers

“Few Americans—or members of Congress—read The Public Interest. Still, the rapid rise of the "neo-cons" to intellectual respectability was revealing. And their complaints, especially…

— James T. Patterson

Step by step we see democracy being uprooted like an unwanted weed and the preparation for fascism, for a police state in America. The…

— Stan Moore

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the…

— Jim Hightower

I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore…

— Dean Acheson