Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernie Sanders

Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We're proud that we have received four million individual contributions, more than any candidate in American history at this point.

We don't really have a representative democracy if we don't have participation of most of our people.

Michelle Bachelet

Together we recovered democracy for Chile. Now I invite you to be a part of another historic moment by electing Chile's first ever woman president. Let's make history.

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

John Podesta

When you look at your exit polls tomorrow, you will find Democrats did very well because the economy is not going in the right direction,

David Hoffman

We've received a lot of funding from Democratic and Republican administrations. It makes for some strange bedfellows.

Ehud Barak

What happened at the site was a test, and not a simple one, for democracy and a red light on the road to anarchy,

Mohamed ElBaradei

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.

Karl Marx

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Nicholas Sparks

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

Nawal El Saadawi

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Neal A. Maxwell

There is no democracy of facts.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

Mikhail Gorbachev

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Ismail Haniyeh

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

Gloria Steinem

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

H. L. Mencken

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

H. L. Mencken

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

H. L. Mencken

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

H. L. Mencken

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

H. L. Mencken

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

Joseph Stalin

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

Nelson Mandela

A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

Nelson Mandela

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

Noam Chomsky

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

Noam Chomsky

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

Noam Chomsky

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

Noam Chomsky

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.