Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jawaharlal Nehru

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

Hillary Clinton

Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.

Hillary Clinton

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

Hillary Clinton

Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.

Hillary Clinton

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.

Hillary Clinton

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

Herbert Croly

I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.

Herbert Marcuse

Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.

Grover Norquist

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

Ian Mckellen

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

Hugo Chavez

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.

Hugo Chavez

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Hugo Chavez

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

Howard Zinn

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

Howard Zinn

If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.

Gore Vidal

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Gore Vidal

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

Generally speaking, Democrats don't have a chance, and I don't think it will be any different this time.

George Bernard Shaw

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

George Bernard Shaw

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

Gale Norton

I started out as a Democrat.

Christine Lagarde

You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.

It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

George Soros

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

Gail Sheehy

Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.

Frank Gehry

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

Ferdinand Marcos

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

Fareed Zakaria

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

Francis Bacon

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

Chris Stapleton

I walked into a demo session one time, and a guy said, 'I'm thinking kind of like a Trace Adkins thing.' And I looked him right in the eye and said, 'Man, you've got the wrong guy. I'm gonna have to fire myself. You've got to hire somebody else.'

Phil Gingrey

I've got a district right now shaped like Indonesia, ... It makes no sense at all except from the political perspective. I really think the Democratic Party in Georgia knows they overreached on these maps. What occurred is just a corrective measure to put communities back together again.

Florence King

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Flemming Rose

The only right we do not and should not have in a liberal democracy is a right not to be offended.