Democratic Quotes

So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.

We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

Our aim is a democratic peace.

As Gerhard Schröder said in the Oval Office, a democratic Iraq is important not only to Germany, but to Europe, and he's right.

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

I think it's been time for a new party. I think it's time for two new parties. If you watch the Democratic convention, that has become a socialist party now.

We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and Democratic politician do.

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens -- usually cash -- and keep it for itself.

Military missions are not democratic development aid.

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.

It's very easy to just shout: 'Off with their heads!' Maybe in doing that you might lose something very valuable. I would like to see the monarchy continue, but in a more democratic fashion.

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.

The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.

What I want to know is why in the world the Democratic party leadership is supporting the president's unilateral attack on Iraq?

What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?

If history's any judge, you might have democratic leanings in a revolution but that doesn't necessarily mean that the revolution is going to end up with democratic results.

Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.

I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

There are more Democratic schmucks than there are Republican ones.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

Value-based leaders believe in democratic workplaces in which employees participate in decisions.

Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It’s OK to be the boss

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

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.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

Experts are saying that President Bush's goal now is to politically humiliate Saddam Hussein. Why don't we just make him the next Democratic presidential nominee?

I am partisan to some extent on the Democratic side, but I consider myself more of an independent.

I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

Under Donald Trump, you know, we've seen the foundation of the Republican Party move into the Democratic Party, so Donald Trump, I think, will have a lot of trouble moving things through Congress.

My campaign filed the bill back in 2002 in the Democratic legislature, 85% Democratic, they could have prevented any possibility of a split vote.

They knocked out Bernie [Sanders] as they would have knocked him out, like [Barack] Obama if he came into office. So I don't think the Democratic Party is going to solve it for us.

The largest bloc of voters now has divorced the Democratic and Republican parties, which are now minority parties and the plurality of voters now are independent. They're looking for something else.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.