Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. Wright Mills

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

Carl Icahn

Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

David Brock

I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Benazir Bhutto

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

Dennis Chavez

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

Chen Shui-bian

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Chaka Fattah

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Bob Brown

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

Che Guevara

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.

Che Guevara

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Ai Weiwei

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

Matthias Platzeck

We grew up under dictatorship, wanted democracy and were quickly given responsibility. That sharpens the view for risks, but also for chances.

Daniel Ortega

We grew up in a situation where we didn't know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn't know what democracy was.

John Conyers

We've got a tremendous legacy to fulfill. You can't maintain a democracy and an empire simultaneously. Rosa, you taught me that.

Bill Moyers

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own

Bill Moyers

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

Jim Kolbe

Through free trade, we have exported our principles, as well as our products - sharing America's freedom and democracy with the world,

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

Benjamin Franklin

What good shall I do this day?

This was a second independence for us, and one that was made by the Lebanese people. It can only mean that accountability and democracy will advance.

Jane Addams

All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

Jane Addams

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

Al Gore

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

Blaise Pascal

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

Brigitte Bardot

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

Brad Pitt

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

Barbara Boxer

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

Brian Eno

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Brent Scowcroft

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

Brent Scowcroft

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Archibald MacLeish

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

Barbara Jordan

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.