1222 Democracy Quotes for You to Enjoy

I always tell my students: I don't care which side you're on. I respect you too much to try to persuade you in 120 minutes a week, much less lure you into pretending that you agree with me. All I want is for you to own this democracy, to see yours, to have a stake in it. Susan Estrich

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How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally. Susan George

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Democracy cannot be imagined without Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha, and they cannot be imagined without MPs and MLAs. Sushma Swaraj

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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here. Tariq Ali

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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad. Tariq Ali

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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office. Tariq Ali

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We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Ted Yoho

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Democracy is like a totalitarian. Ted Yoho

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If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going to be forever chaos. It's time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law. Thaksin Shinawatra

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BDS is not a typical act of political correctness, undertaken by radical academics whose usual prey is the youth of America. This is a worldwide movement designed to destroy the one democracy in the Middle East and the hopes of people who have occupied that land for over three thousand years. Thom Tillis

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I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good whatsoever, that is almost as bad as being starry-eyed and thinking that they are all here to advance democracy. Thomas Mallon

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Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. Thomas Mann

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We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite. Thomas Piketty

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Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years. Tim Holden

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Our democracy depends on a free and independent press. When politicians call reporting they don't like 'fake news,' they undermine trust in our civic organizations for their own political gain. Tina Smith

Commerce is a powerful, underestimated form of expression. We use it to cast a vote with every product we buy. It's a direct expression of democracy. This is why our mission at Shopify is to protect that form of expression and make it better for everyone, not just for those we agree with. Tobias Lutke

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

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When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attention from their own egregious human rights abuses and attempt to pass judgment on Israel - a country with a vibrant liberal democracy - the credibility of the UNHRC is further undermined, and the United States must not be silent. Todd Young

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I think that my general feeling about the United States is that democracy works, and I've believed that my whole life, and my experience as a businessperson for 30 years was if you ignore the sound and fury, American democracy works if you give it enough time. Tom Steyer

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What Bernie Sanders is talking about, which is trying to get back to a more perfect democracy, is something that we support, too. We just think that the idea of... wishing the rules were different and then pretending they were is something which, unfortunately, probably would be disastrous from the standpoint of energy and climate. Tom Steyer

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I've always said that climate change is the defining issue of our generation. I've set out to hold candidates and elected officials accountable and to push our democracy to truly represent the interests of our kids. Tom Steyer

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We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships. Tom Tancredo

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American democracy is greater with free speech and open dialogue. Tomi Lahren

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