Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chipper Jones

We needed to exorcise some demons from last night. It was a little worrisome what happened last night. But tonight, what more can you say? They did a great job.

Ludwig von Mises

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

Chris Shiflett

We get sweaty, 14-year-old boy's demo CDs, ... and no panties.

Martin Sheen

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

Orhan Pamuk

I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

Samantha Power

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

Rory Stewart

Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.

Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama.

Without Chafee, you're going to get an extremely liberal Democrat in that seat.

Warren Christopher

Without a free and independent media, true democracy is unattainable.

We recorded our demo in November and it should be out in a few weeks. You can listen to rough versions of the songs on our website.

Hugo Chavez

Well we can try to measure democracy, just as you measure temperature with a thermometer, or pressure with a barometer.

Hu Jintao

We must push for international configuration of multi-polarity and democracy in international relations,

I would not exclude any political group as long as it respects the democratic process.

Mwai Kibaki

I would like to congratulate all of you for participating peacefully in this historic occasion, ... This is a big step in the democracy of our nation.

Peter Cohan

Most demos take 20 minutes or 40 minutes or -- God help you -- longer to get to the point.

Metro should study the democratic process before they study a way to get around it.

will have to give us free, fair elections and democracy .

Orrin Hatch

We have one Democrat who was willing to stand up to his own caucus. Let me tell you, that was a big-time thing.

We invite the public to speak. That's democracy in action, ... But I will not have any more recommendations to the board.

Dick Gephardt

We in the Democratic Party feel strongly that the people in the middle, the people stuck on the bottom, are the people we need to be giving the majority of this tax cut.

Bertrand Russell

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

Jose Barroso

We haven't ground to a halt but we have to respect the pace of democracy in each country. We hope that they will come up with a solution for stability in Germany because stability in Germany means stability for Europe too.

Barney Frank

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

The problem with having a state as expensive as New Jersey in play is that it might divert resources from other races. National Democrats would prefer not to spend money in New Jersey. But they may have to if this race gets close.

Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.

Republicans spend and borrow, Democrats tax and spend.

Republicans have not been doing their share of registering voters. The Democrats should be congratulated.

We're disappointed in this indecisiveness and lack of leadership from the national Democrats and Sherrod Brown, who said he wouldn't run,

We're disappointed in the outcome, but we're pleased to see a relatively strong Democratic performance in an otherwise staunchly Republican district.

We are going to demolish all of them.

We live in a democratic society, and it's our constitutional right to have equal rights,

We do not wish to be in a position to prescribe for Nepal, and to prescribe for the people of Nepal in what manner they would go about realizing their democratic aspirations.