Best 251 quotes in «democratic quotes» category

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

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

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.

Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.

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.

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.

Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?

As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

Any democratic sentiment propels my politics.

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.

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters.

Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

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

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

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

Hillary Clinton is also not a very exciting, inspiring candidate to a lot of the left-leaning Democratic base, especially in Iowa.

I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

I cringe every time republican senators say, "our Democratic friends." Chuck Schumer, if he is your friend, it's a problem. I mean, it shouldn't be, but we know it is.

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

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.

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

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

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

I always love to see a Democratic party in America. I've heard people's reservations about the situation between choosing between Hillary and Trump. It just seems that you can't have this man in that position. It completely confounds me why anybody would want such a hateful person in charge. It doesn't make sense to me as a human being.

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

I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.

I belong to the Democratic Party.