Democratic Quotes

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.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

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

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

[Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an absolute assault on our democracy.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

The Democratic Party is very afraid of having competition that is actually unmuzzled and that can tell the truth, which is why they keep this fear voting system in place.

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions.

Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.

Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.

The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.

If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

The worst of all States is the democratic State.

The democratic process on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process, but should be applied to the industrial operation as well.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

I don't really care about the GOPs or the Democratic Party. My point is the people, giving the people truth.

Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best.

Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.

I think [ unpopular presidential candidates ] indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we've got more work to do to strengthen our grassroots networks.

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

The Democratic Party has been very strong in a lot of areas, in fighting to make our country a less discriminatory country. And that is enormously important.

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.