Democratic Quotes

There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

Democratic Party is a party that's just out of touch with who the electorate is and who Americans are.

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times.

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party has formed a perfect union with the mainstream media to scare Republicans, to say that they're gonna be called racists or sexists or homophobic if they reach out to minorities.

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.

I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.

I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.

Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.

John Kerry will be the Democratic nominee for president. Democrats finally found someone who is Al Gore without the flash and the sizzle.

You can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic.

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

For a fledging democratic system to succeed, we need citizens who understand the procedures, believe in democratic rules and get personally involved.

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus?

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

There’s no Democratic way to run a city and there’s no Republican way to run a city -- just the right way to run a city.

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.

This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.