Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

Mike Huckabee

For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing.

Susan Estrich

Are Republican women politicians more 'feminine' than Democratic women politicians?

What I would take away from it is, it's still very early and anything can happen in the Democratic race for the nomination.

This year, Russia has become a different country. It is no longer a democratic country. It is no longer a free country.

Rand Paul

We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

Jon Stewart

The Oscars is really, I guess, the one night of the year when you can see all your favorite stars without having to donate any money to the Democratic Party. And it's exciting for the stars as well because it's the first time many of you have ever voted for a winner.

I've never heard of internships that pay $50,000 or $60,000. These internships are simply a way to reward those who pay their dues to Democratic campaigns.

Mo Ibrahim

The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections.

These are the worst (poll) numbers I've seen for any party since I was looking at the Democratic numbers in 1994.

The subtext of the Democratic proposal is: If you have a problem, get a lawyer.

George Osborne

I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.

Pericles

The marketplace is democratic.

Thomas Piketty

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

Herbert Marcuse

Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.

Phil Gingrey

I've got a district right now shaped like Indonesia, ... It makes no sense at all except from the political perspective. I really think the Democratic Party in Georgia knows they overreached on these maps. What occurred is just a corrective measure to put communities back together again.

The Blue Dogs are all Democrats; they are. And I'll tell you, in terms of wearing the Democratic label, I think they're the true Democrats, because that label usually hurts them when they're running for election.

tarnish the Democratic Party in general, and President Clinton, and more pointedly, Vice President Gore.

taking enormous risks with all of our expectations for a peaceful and democratic future.

Democratic voters said, 'I'll send you a message, George Bush, if that's what you want.'

Democratic rights do not exist presently in Nepal.

Michael Hirst

I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far more democratic than the Saxons and the Francs, who were exercising really hierarchical social structures at that time. The Vikings had popular meetings where everything could be discussed.

Riordan Roett

I don't see how we can be opposed to that if it helps stabilize democratic systems.

He's very talented and very bright, but I've rarely seen him deviate from the Democratic Party line. ... He's very effective for his side of the aisle, and if it's a partisan issue, he typically won't back down.

George Foreman

The first principle of democratic government: Respect the people.

John Dewey

Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.

John Dewey

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

Mahathir Mohamad

The UN is hardly democratic.

Scott Maddox

I'm going to do whatever I can to help the Democratic Party,

George Orwell

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

The gay vote is now regarded by many professional political people to be worth up to 16 to 17 percent of the democratic primary in New York City.

The Freedom Party and its leadership is a democratic party far removed from any totalitarian or national socialist sympathies.