Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Richard Daley

We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone.

Leah Ward Sears

I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.

Luis Gutierrez

We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.

We had no choice. We did what any democracy would have done.

Lee R. Raymond

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Bob Ehrlich

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

Noam Chomsky

Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies.

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

Ali Babacan

Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success.

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.

We're not expecting North Korea to become a Jeffersonian democracy, but we do expect them to sit down and talk to us about these issues, to talk to the international community.

Nancy Gibbs

Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.

Susan Glaspell

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.

William Sadler

People quote lines to me all the time. I'm always surprised - everybody has a favorite movie, and they're always different. I'm always shocked. People stop me on the street and throw lines at me from 'Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight' and 'Deep Space Nine.' 'Shawshank' happens a lot because they play it so much on TV.

Andrew Cuomo

Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate.

Alan Greenspan

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

Sarah Steelman

There are as many Democrats that are guilty as Republicans and their spending habits. And the fact is, is that Washington is just broken.

Karl Rove

Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.

Terry Eagleton

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

Dannel Malloy

Democrats tend to think of elections as cycles. Republicans don't: It's ongoing and constant.

Dana Rohrabacher

January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.

Kerry Washington

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.

Bayard Rustin

The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.

This world would have been much better off had your mother aborted your demon soul.

Ayad Allawi

We are adamant that democracy is going to prevail, it's going to win in iraq and this is where terrorists are trying to hurt us and trying to undermine us.

Timothy Noah

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

Clay Shirky

The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the political ramifications have to do with that one word having so many meanings. So, it's democratic in that it quite literally delivers power to the people; it, it essentially opens up participation in the public's mind.