Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Nader

The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'

Melissa Bean

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Mark Zandi

I'm a registered Democrat.

Nina Hagen

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

Neil Gaiman

Time is fluid here', said the Demon.

Theodore Roosevelt

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

Margaret Halsey

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

P. J. O'Rourke

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

Paul Johnson

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

Sinclair Lewis

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

How this gets handled will determine much about our dream, of having democracy in an Islamic country, reinforcing one another.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

I love Israel because Israel is a democratic country.

Jason Chaffetz

I'm trying to unify us internally so that we can - instead of firing on each other - fire on the Democrats and communicate a message and start talking about issues.

Walid Jumblatt

independent Lebanon, a democratic Lebanon, with a good relationship with Syria.

Rand Paul

Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

In many ways, it looks like the Democratic Party is trying to run the same play that propelled Mark Warner to prominence previously.

Noam Chomsky

In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about democracy and a lack of faith in democratic institutions.

Colin McEnroe

I'm a registered Democrat and, like a lot of my species here in Connecticut, I don't know whom I'm going to vote for in August. If I had to vote tomorrow, I'd vote for Ned Lamont, but I'd leave the polling place shaking my head, wondering what the hell happened to Joe Lieberman.

If there are a lot of calls, we do take a look at that stuff. Some people like to demonize us. In many cases, we accommodate the students.

Douglas Brinkley

If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

Larry Sabato

If Warner can't swing the election to his own lieutenant governor with a popularity rating of 75 percent, then Democrats have the right to ask, 'Can this guy really swing any Southern states or was this a fluke?

If you're going to go down this path of encouraging democracy, then to a very large extent you just suck it up.

Ted Cruz

If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.

If you look at democracy in the United States, you will see that it took many, many, many years to develop.

I'm running because of neglect of the community, neglect of the people, neglect of the democratic principles, total neglect. It's like he thinks he's a real-life king, and he has his knights around him. What about the rest of us?

Chris Stapleton

I walked into a demo session one time, and a guy said, 'I'm thinking kind of like a Trace Adkins thing.' And I looked him right in the eye and said, 'Man, you've got the wrong guy. I'm gonna have to fire myself. You've got to hire somebody else.'

Rick Larsen

It is up to Democrats to get things right in Iraq so we can refocus our military efforts to fighting terrorists around the world who want to harm us.

It's a political document through and through. The headline is all you need to know it's a political document. It's nothing more than Democrats using official resources to promote political talking points.

Howard Dean

It shows how we ought to strategically redeploy our troops, including sending our National Guardsmen home. The Democrats now have a vision around ... which we're starting to coalesce.