Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Demo Derby is one of the most popular events at Tri-County. The fans, especially the kids, like the crashing. The participants get to do what everyone would like to do at one time or another and that's run into and over other cars. It's a lot of fun for everyone.

Monica Crowley

The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.

The Democrats are driving by the accident, and they're looking out the window wondering what's going on.

David Blunkett

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.

Luis Gonzalez

The democratic process has passed the hardest test of all. The people of Paraguay have triumphed!

Bill Richardson

The Democratic Party is back. This is a good omen for 2006 and 2008,

The Democratic Party has long thought that its success is dependent on some support in the South.

Condoleezza Rice

to lead the region in promoting democracy, as it has done in pursuit of peace.

Threats of black-listing have no place in Democratic politics. It's a disgusting tactic and it's been done out of pure desperation.

Chipper Jones

We needed to exorcise some demons from last night. It was a little worrisome what happened last night. But tonight, what more can you say? They did a great job.

Ludwig von Mises

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

Chris Shiflett

We get sweaty, 14-year-old boy's demo CDs, ... and no panties.

Martin Sheen

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama.

David Morrissey

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.

We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.

Jack Straw

We owe it to his memory and the memory of so many other people who have been killed in the Lebanon, lost all their livelihoods, to ensure there is a democratic Lebanon and one which is fully sovereign within its borders,

Ronald Reagan

We ought to take a serious look and see if we haven't interfered with the democratic rights of the people.

Greg Boyle

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

When Republicans represent moderate districts, they become less conservative just as Democrats representing conservative districts become less liberal. The least conservative Republican members Mike Fitzpatrick, Jim Gerlach and Curt Weldon all represent suburban Philadelphia districts, where the voters tend to be more moderate.

Dario Fo

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

Condoleezza Rice

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

Faced with China's rise, we should be benign, optimistic and focused on co-existence and shared prosperity. Don't demonize and vilify China, and don't treat it as a threat.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The Israelis should understand that it is in their long-term interest to have a democratic Egypt as a neighbor, and that it is prudent to acknowledge the legitimate interests of the Palestinians and to grant them their own state.

William Ruto

The government that was elected through democratic process should rule by the law. It is a government inviting the wrath of the people.

Anthony Foxx

There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed today. But that impulse has weakened, and therelationship between the people and the corporation has reversed.

To reform to move toward a direct democracy, I don't know how you would do that. If there is the technology there, maybe this is the next step.

Bernie Leadon

I'd do a demo recording by myself, layering instruments on top of one another, and while that's fun, it doesn't have the same impact as getting some great players together in a great studio with a great engineer and producer, then waiting for the magic.

Brooks Atkinson

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

Bharati Mukherjee

The United States exists as a sovereign nation. 'America,' in contrast, exists as a myth of democracy and equal opportunity to live by, or as an ideal goal to reach.