Democratic famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
-- Abdallah II -
If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic?
-- Ahmed Ali -
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.
-- Alan Parker -
No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.
-- Amartya Sen -
There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.
-- Anthony Crosland -
Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
-- Barbara Jordan -
Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.
-- Bernard Meltzer -
Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
-- Bernard Williams -
I have been in the Democratic Caucus in the Senate for over 24 years.
-- Bernie Sanders -
Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many...
-- C. S. Lewis -
I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.
-- Caroline Kennedy -
You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.
-- Christine Lagarde -
I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.
-- Christopher Eccleston -
Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.
-- Clinton Rossiter -
Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
-- Dan Harmon -
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
-- David Ives -
The Democratic Party headquarters house elf,
-- Dennis Kucinich -
The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
-- Ed Gillespie -
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
-- Edward de Bono -
Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.
-- Edward Tufte -
It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it.
-- Ella T. Grasso -
Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
-- George F. Kennan -
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
-- Giannina Braschi -
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
-- Gilles Deleuze -
I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.
-- Gina McCarthy -
Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.
-- Greg Bear -
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.
-- Hendrik Hertzberg -
International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples
-- Henri La Fontaine -
how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?
-- Herbert Schiller -
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
-- Indro Montanelli -
The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
-- Jack Kemp -
In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.
-- Jacques Verges -
In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.
-- Jay Gould -
I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.
-- Jean-Claude Duvalier -
The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.
-- Jeff Miller -
If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.
-- Jesse Jackson -
Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.
-- Jessica Cutler -
Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.
-- Joan Robinson -
Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.
-- John Dewey -
The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.
-- John Dewey -
Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.
-- John W. Gardner -
Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.
-- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero -
The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.
-- Kurt Russell -
Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.
-- Liberace -
With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
-- Ma Ying-jeou -
You know, winning Democratic primaries is not a qualification, or a sign, of who can win the general election. If it were, every nominee would win, because every nominee wins Democratic primaries.
-- Mark Penn -
We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation.
-- Mikhail Saakashvili -
You can’t teach a monkey to speak and you can’t teach an Arab to be democratic,
-- Moshe Feiglin -
No country is free unless it is democratic.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk -
We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
-- Oliver Tambo -
I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.
-- Peggy Noonan -
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term
-- Peter L. Berger -
Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.
-- Peter Senge -
I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.
-- Richard Attenborough -
The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.
-- Richard J. Daley -
The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.
-- Richard Lamm -
There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.
-- Robert Bourassa -
The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives
-- Russell Brand -
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
-- Salvador Dali -
Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.
-- Serj Tankian -
So Israel won't be a democratic state, so what.
-- Sheldon Adelson -
If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.
-- Shirley Williams -
Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.
-- Stanley Crouch -
American is the first democratic nation-state.
-- Stephen Ambrose -
For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
-- Theodore Bikel -
The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.
-- Thomas Frank -
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
We're gonna promote freedom. Usher in democratic values and ideals. And fight terror-loving terrorists.
-- Tina Fey -
Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.
-- Virginia Foxx -
National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
-- Wallace Stegner -
Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.
-- William Kristol -
I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.
-- Young Jeezy -
One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.
-- Yoweri Museveni -
She ( Margaret Thatcher )is democratic enough to talk down to anyone
-- Austin Mitchell -
The United States had eight years of Barack Obama. He made it incredibly clear that he was a right-wing Democrat. He cited Ronald Reagan lovingly in every stump speech for the last six months of the presidential 2008 campaign. And he made it clear that he was going to be a business-friendly Democratic president, and that he was not going to rock the neoliberal boat. And he didn't.
-- Avi Lewis -
I do a lot of pivoting. There was one cover I did of Donald Trump, after he won Iowa, it seemed like it was over for him at the beginning of the primary process. I was given the go-ahead on it right away. I drew it and he won the next primary, and suddenly, the cover didn't make any sense. And then, after the Democratic National Convention, it seemed like he was finished, Hillary Clinton seemed to be gaining strength, so the cover ran then. So it seemed like you can come up with an idea and it can be rendered useless two days later and then all of a sudden it's relevant again.
-- Barry Blitt -
Any democratic sentiment propels my politics.
-- Cody Wilson -
Democratic Party is a party that's just out of touch with who the electorate is and who Americans are.
-- Kellyanne Conway -
The Clintons are very close with everybody on the Democratic side.
-- Martin O'Malley -
The Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party.
-- Michael T. Flynn -
Unless we know history, we will have little understanding of how far we have come, how we got here, and what still needs to change to make America and the rest of the world more livable, humane, and democratic.
-- Peter Dreier -
The elections would be free and democratic, and any result would have to be accepted.
-- Sebastian Kurz -
Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.
-- Shami Chakrabarti -
I am the Democratic Whip of the White House.
-- Thomas P. O'Neill III -
It's a bit questionable whether Turkey is a model country or not, since our government is supporting ISIS in Syria, since there are legislations that are not in line with democratic rules.
-- Burhan Sonmez -
I think we need a life-loving Palestine living by a Jewish democratic Israel.
-- Ari Shavit -
You can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic.
-- Moshe Feiglin -
I don't think we can rule out a wave, I think a Democratic takeover is possible but not probable.
-- Christopher Michael Cillizza -
The Russians stole from the Democratic National Committee with hacking.
-- E. J. Dionne -
Americans don't want to hear the answers are privileged and off limits or they can't be provided in public or it would be inappropriate for witnesses to tell us what they know. We are talking about an attack on our democratic institutions and stonewalling of any kind is unacceptable. General Jeff Sessions acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this stonewalling.
-- Ron Wyden
