Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rush Limbaugh

They [Democrats] don't even want us around.

Ronald Reagan

The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

Romano Prodi

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Rory Stewart

If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.

Rosa Luxemburg

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

Susan Rice

Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.

Susan Rice

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

Susan Estrich

Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.

Susan George

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

Tim Allen

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

Robert Bourassa

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

Tommy Douglas

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

Tom Tancredo

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

Stephen Colbert

To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They are publicly buying democracy.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

Thomas Jefferson

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Vilfredo Pareto

Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.

Victor Hugo

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

Stephane Hessel

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

Vaclav Klaus

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

Vaclav Klaus

As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

Stefan Molyneux

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

Stanley Fish

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Silvan Shalom

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

Shami Chakrabarti

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

Serj Tankian

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

Steven Pinker

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

Richard Grossman

I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.

Ray Bradbury

Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.

Ramsey Clark

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

Ramsey Clark

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

Rand Paul

We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in the Middle East is going to love us. They are not going to love us.