Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

Hugo Chavez

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.

Hugo Chavez

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Hugo Chavez

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

Howard Zinn

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

Howard Zinn

If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.

Gail Sheehy

Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.

Frank Gehry

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

Ferdinand Marcos

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

Fareed Zakaria

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

Francis Bacon

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

Terry McAuliffe

If he were just another Republican with a book, he wouldn't sell any. But a Democrat out whacking Democrats sells books,

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.

Viktor Yushchenko

I am very happy that our Ukrainian people rose up and fought for freedom and democracy, and I think that we will have our victory,

Jim Hightower

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

Jerrold Nadler

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

Jill Flint

Demons are demons, and if you have them, you can either put them away, exorcize them, or carry them with you.

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

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.

Ed Gillespie

Every single Democrat running for president today is for raising taxes on working Americans. They're split on a lot of things, but when it comes to raising taxes, they're unanimous,

Every morning when he wakes up, he's trying to figure out a way that the conservatives can win and the Democrats lose.

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

Phil Gramm

The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.

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?

Sir Mix-a-Lot

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

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 are going to demolish all of them.

The United States has long stood for expansion of global trade and consolidating democracy.

Is the Philippines a real democracy or just an elitist group going through the motions of democracy?

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.