Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Abbey

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

Edward Abbey

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Aristotle

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

Aristotle

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

Eliphas Levi

There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.

Julian Castro

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

The prime minister wants to appoint these two because they served him through all the democratic manipulations he has been involved in,

David K. Shipler

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

Vicente Fox

What I am hoping for is votes from intelligent and democratic PRD supporters who want change,

Alan Price

When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film.

Kevin McCloud

You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.

Ronnie Musgrove

Through time and dedication, we will make it okay to be a proud Democrat in the South once again.

Richard Holbrooke

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

On a day when the Democrats unveil their national security agenda, it's probably not a good idea to allegedly strike a police officer.

J. D. Hayworth

Simply put, Republican economic policies let Americans keep more of their own money to spend, save and invest, while Democrats want to take it away.

Joseph Nye

She did a good job of explaining what has been a veiled policy, ... She has a vision of democracy in the Middle East as a means of eliminating terrorism, but there is an inadequate roadmap for implementing that strategy. We just didn't hear about it.

She remains a controversial figure when she moves out from the Democratic primary sweepstakes.

Lynn Swann

Minorities give their vote to the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party has given them lip service in terms of being involved in the party and in being major players.

Mr. Speight undermined the democratic process. The government has been incapacitated, illegally.

There is a power to the street that's part of the democratic process when all else has failed,

David Anderson

I feel like it is a dictatorship instead of a democracy.

Getting ready for Demo kept getting pushed back.

Fox has been a disappointment. He has not been a total failure. But all of a sudden we find that some of the instruments that make democracy possible are not working.

Ayad Allawi

Freedom and democracy are great goals we should achieve, ... We have great duties to face and stand up to.

Tom Scholz

Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.

ISVs are really embracing this model. And VARs who have either a vertical or horizontal expertise can take the applications for a demo with their customers, or play with the applications in a development environment; you can't do that with software.

Jalal Talabani

I swore to respect the Iraqi democratic regime and the Iraqi laws.

Mitch McConnell

I think there are a whole lot of Democrats who never had any idea what was in this bill, at least this year they are reading it." ()

Emma Bonino

landmark in a very difficult fragile development towards democracy.

Jalal Talabani

I think the Iraqi minister of human rights wanted to show them which kind of democracy now we have,

Jalal Talabani

I think the future of Iraq will be democratic, pluralistic and federal. After the toppling of the regime there will be a democratic system that will be fair for all its citizens.

Howard Dean

I think the Democrats are going to have to think long and hard, as the hearings progress, about whether we should support him.

Stephen Breyer

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.