Famous Quotes & Sayings

This day will enable voters to exercise their democratic right.

David Blunkett

It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.

Jalal Talabani

First of all, I would like to state that the Kurdistan Democratic Party is an old party with great history, and so is the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

Robert Menzies

You don't have a democracy. It's a photocracy.

The Republicans have shown us that they're corrupt. More importantly, lately, they've shown us how incompetent they've been, and how divided. We're not going to roll over for Texas oil companies. Democrats will make sure our seniors can get the medicines they need at a price they can afford...

there's a lot happening. Democracy is today's world order. Everybody's talking democracy in the region and the world. And they will have to give us free, fair elections and democracy.

Marsha Blackburn

You might have noticed Harry Reid is a little upset with Americans for Prosperity. Let me tell you, when the Democrat leader is complaining about you on the Senate floor, you know you are doing something right.

This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win, ... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate.

This is a story about what one election hath wrought to the PAC dollars, ... Again, being used to watching these things move very incrementally, it looks like the glacier just calved off and the Democrats were the victims in that one.

Anthony Kennedy

This is not chauvinistic, ... Our purpose, our mission is to share democracy with the world.

This is not a Republican or Democratic issue at the state board. We are completely united in our request that the Legislature free up money for those books. We are sending them plenty of money. It's not tax revenue.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

Mohamed ElBaradei

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.

Frank Herbert

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

George Hamilton

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

George Hamilton

Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.

George H. W. Bush

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

Harold Bloom

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

Ha-Joon Chang

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

Haile Selassie

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

Gustav Heinemann

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

H. G. Wells

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

Jean Baudrillard

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

Byron Dorgan

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

Milos Forman

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

That is not respecting our democracy, using the State Department as a concierge for foreign donations, not really respecting our American democracy.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

For the past five years Thailand has been a democracy only in name.

Ismail Haniyeh

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

Gloria Steinem

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

H. L. Mencken

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.