Famous Quotes & Sayings

Democracy is the key to our strategy throughout southeastern Europe,

Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people

Democracy is taking its first steps in my country. It needs international help to grow.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

James Russell Lowell

Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Stephen Kinzer

Congress, it turns out, is filled with Republicans and Democrats eager to act as enablers for the most repressive forces in Iran.

The next government will have the greatest legitimacy of any administration since the return to democracy in 1982.

Rick Larsen

It is up to Democrats to get things right in Iraq so we can refocus our military efforts to fighting terrorists around the world who want to harm us.

It's just one more way the Legislature can have an impact on democracy.

Brad Richards

It's far from done, but we got some things accomplished (in Ottawa). We exorcised some demons in the third period (Sunday) in that building.

It seems to me this law is a way to demonize and penalize the very people who are trying so hard to do the work. It is very punitive to me. Instead, why can't we think about how we can help teachers go into a school and turn it around?

Howard Dean

It's a sensible plan. It's a thoughtful plan. I think Democrats can coalesce around it.

It's a political document through and through. The headline is all you need to know it's a political document. It's nothing more than Democrats using official resources to promote political talking points.

Howard Dean

It shows how we ought to strategically redeploy our troops, including sending our National Guardsmen home. The Democrats now have a vision around ... which we're starting to coalesce.

that in the end the Democrats will come around and join us for the good of the country.

A year ago everyone had written Democrats off. The media had taken for granted the re-election of George Bush. Isn't it fun to prove them wrong?

As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

Ed Gillespie

Every single Democrat running for president today is for raising taxes on working Americans. They're split on a lot of things, but when it comes to raising taxes, they're unanimous,

Every morning when he wakes up, he's trying to figure out a way that the conservatives can win and the Democrats lose.

Jesse Jackson

It's not enough to vote for a democracy, ... Democracy requires vigilance. Democracy requires patience.

It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.

H. L. Mencken

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The general will is always right.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

Jeremy Clarkson

The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!

Jerrold Nadler

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

Jill Flint

Demons are demons, and if you have them, you can either put them away, exorcize them, or carry them with you.

Jean Chretien

Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

Christopher Lasch

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

Jeff Cooper

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

George Will

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

George Will

In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.

Jim Hightower

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.