Famous Quotes & Sayings

David McCullough

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

Bill Moyers

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

Jim Kolbe

Through free trade, we have exported our principles, as well as our products - sharing America's freedom and democracy with the world,

role as the leading upholder of democracy and law.

Barbara Jordan

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Al Gore

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

Barbara Boxer

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

Edward Abbey

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Aristotle

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

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.

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,

Through these steps, stability, peace and democracy can be restored in Nepal.

Dick Cheney

We will ... succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency.

Jalal Talabani

we will never surrender to the terrorists who despise democracy and distort religion. Never.

Adolf Hitler

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

Ann Coulter

Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak] comes under attack and they are burning for democracy.

Alexander Hamilton

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

Alexis de Tocqueville

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Drew Carey

What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

Dolores Huerta

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

Dick Gephardt

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.

Dick Gregory

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

Amartya Sen

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

Amartya Sen

Democracy is a universal value

Chuck Hagel

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

Chuck Hagel

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

Amos Oz

All of my novels are democracies.

Anthony Eden

Drift is the demon of democracy.

Annette Lu

Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

Angela Davis

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

Cullen Hightower

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.