Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Carey

What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

Clare Boothe Luce

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

Dolores Huerta

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

Dick Gephardt

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.

Dick Gregory

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

Condoleezza Rice

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

Claude Pepper

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

Colum McCann

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.

David Lloyd George

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

Coretta Scott King

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

Dario Fo

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

Amartya Sen

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

Amartya Sen

Democracy is a universal value

Alexis Tsipras

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

Alexis Tsipras

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

Jalal Talabani

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

He could then say with some credibility that progress is being made and paint the Democrats as the party of defeat.

Ron Shelton

He literally was demon possessed with the bottle, ... In that regard, he's not like 'Nuke' LaLoosh.

John Kitzhaber

has less to do with me than the general malaise of the Democratic Party right now.

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.

Historically, governments that fail to recognize property rights soon fail in the recognition of human rights, ... If Americans can't be secure in their property rights, our democracy starts to crumble.

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.

Jimmy Carter

There is extreme interest in voting, total determination for democracy and freedom,

Eugene Debs

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

When he's with you, he fights hard, and that's why he's able to gather people and be a leader of Democrats nationally. In terms of the Senate, he's a master.

We've gone from a situation of Democratic dominance to parity.

Jalal Talabani

We support the principle of democratic change, even with American assistance.

He's going at the throat of unions, which is the heart of the Democratic Party. If they can reduce the role of unions, that would be a dream come true for Republicans.

E. B. White

He's feeling the pressure from the growth of the Democratic Party, ... He's probably being more diligent.