Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Huckabee

For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing.

Susan Estrich

Are Republican women politicians more 'feminine' than Democratic women politicians?

Sir Mix-a-Lot

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

Ronald Reagan

The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Anthony Kennedy

The judiciary as an institution is faced with a new threat. Democracy is something that you must learn each generation.

These frustrations have only gotten worse even as the rhetoric that 'democracy is coming' has increased.

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.

Corazon Aquino

This is really shocking. It's really a pity to lose our democracy again.

Condoleezza Rice

This is really democracy at work in Iraq, ... And given where they were just a few years ago, having lived in tyranny for all those decades, this is an extraordinary achievement.

Dwayne Roloson

This is supposed to be a democratic union and it's become communist.

Condoleezza Rice

This is the democratic process at work, ... What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

The weekly statement, in which the Holocaust was cited, mainly focused on criticizing western democracy.

Ellen Page

I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.

Thomas Jefferson

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

Thomas Jefferson

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

Thomas Jefferson

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

Thomas Jefferson

The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

Thomas Jefferson

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

Rick Perry

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

Stefan Molyneux

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

Stanley Fish

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Stephen Colbert

To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They are publicly buying democracy.

Thomas Pynchon

But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

Thomas Jefferson

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Woody Allen

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

William J. Clinton

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

Wesley Willis

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

Samuel P. Huntington

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

Samuel P. Huntington

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Russell Brand

It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.