Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jalal Talabani

And the Iraqi people are liberated from the worst kind of dictatorship. Now they are enjoying their democratic rights, all kinds of freedoms, a free press.

Larry Sabato

As far as others in his party are concerned, Simmons' district is highly competitive and in a strong Democratic year, it could easily be lost. ... These favors are done for Simmons simply to save the seat.

Iqbal Sacranie

Our democratic values need to be upheld, not undermined.

Bill Richardson

So what we want to do is send a message that the Democrats and Sen. Kerry are positive -- that we're going to talk about what we're going to do on the economy, on health care, on foreign policy, on national security and not make this into a big bashing of the president,

Scott McClellan

They have the information they need. This is just about resorting back to a partisan approach. Just 72 hours after all the good will and bipartisanship, it's a shame to see the Democratic leadership resort back to a partisan approach. This is a nominee who has majority support." ()

As she said, under Republican rule the House leadership has stifled real and substantive debate, preventing Democrats from offering amendments and engaging in real discussion.

Sam Katz

A lot of people want to talk about Democrat and Republican. The label that matters most to me is Philadelphian,

Americans don't like what they're seeing in Washington and know that Democrats are the party of change.

A lot of unanswered questions that the state Democratic Party has been asking, now, unfortunately for Sen. Burns, the U.S. Justice Department is starting to ask.

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 White House is happy, the Democrats are happy, the speaker is happy, and the American people should be happy.

The United States should listen to the voice of Taiwan's people and treat democratic Taiwan fairly.

This day will enable voters to exercise their democratic right.

David Blunkett

It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.

Jalal Talabani

First of all, I would like to state that the Kurdistan Democratic Party is an old party with great history, and so is the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

The Republicans have shown us that they're corrupt. More importantly, lately, they've shown us how incompetent they've been, and how divided. We're not going to roll over for Texas oil companies. Democrats will make sure our seniors can get the medicines they need at a price they can afford...

Marsha Blackburn

You might have noticed Harry Reid is a little upset with Americans for Prosperity. Let me tell you, when the Democrat leader is complaining about you on the Senate floor, you know you are doing something right.

This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win, ... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate.

This is a story about what one election hath wrought to the PAC dollars, ... Again, being used to watching these things move very incrementally, it looks like the glacier just calved off and the Democrats were the victims in that one.

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.

Susan Estrich

Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.

Terence McKenna

In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.

Robert Bourassa

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

Serj Tankian

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.

There's probably some question on the Democratic side on whether they'd prefer it to be an unresolved issue.

Jeremy Corbyn

Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.

Cuba's future will be determined by Cubans. Our role is to support those working for democratic change.

We're disappointed in this indecisiveness and lack of leadership from the national Democrats and Sherrod Brown, who said he wouldn't run,

We're disappointed in the outcome, but we're pleased to see a relatively strong Democratic performance in an otherwise staunchly Republican district.

We live in a democratic society, and it's our constitutional right to have equal rights,

We do not wish to be in a position to prescribe for Nepal, and to prescribe for the people of Nepal in what manner they would go about realizing their democratic aspirations.