Best 251 quotes in «democratic quotes» category

The shame would be if Democrats get thrown out of office without ever having tried Democratic policies.

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.

We expected anyway that the democratic forces which have agreed with us in Zimbabwe would have rallied behind us. But it was a difficult struggle.

The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

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.

We are a strong democratic country.

We had the opposition of virtually the entire Democratic leadership in every state in this country.

We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

This is essential that we have a resurgence in democratic participation. And I don't mean big-D Democrat, I mean small-D democrat. I mean getting involved in your neighborhood, your community. This is no time to say, "I'm not into politics." This is a time to go headlong into the welfare of this nation.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation.

We love your adherence to democratic principles.

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

We need to ensure that our foreign policy towards Cuba incentivizes and makes it easier for there to be a democratic transition. That is how I would examine our foreign policy towards Cuba.

We should stand by our allies, but we should also stand by our ideals and work with our allies and encourage them to live up to the democratic institutions and traditions that they enjoy.

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

We're gonna promote freedom. Usher in democratic values and ideals. And fight terror-loving terrorists.

We're seeing the sort of liberal phenomenon of activists that are speaking out. And they have every right to do so. I think we need to respect that in this country. It's just part of the democratic process.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

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

What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular.

Winning Democratic primaries is not a qualification or a sign of who can win the general election. If it were, every nominee would win because every nominee wins Democratic primaries.

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

When I visited North Korea in November 2014, is that Kim Jong-un is not merely the head of state of the DPRK - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea - he's also their deity. So, when you insult him as the head of state, you're also insulting the deity, which of course the regime plays to a fare-thee-well to the domestic audience there.

When you look at the Democratic presidencies you see resurgence in the economy.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

You'd know if I was the de-facto leader of the Democratic Party, because you'd go down to Walgreen's and buy a pack of blunts.

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

You have to understand that for the most part in New York, whoever gets the Democratic nomination wins.

You need a Democratic Party which is a grassroots party, which makes decisions from the bottom on up, not just from the top on down.

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.

As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.

All democracy begins with you - good or bad - progressive or barbarian - sane or neurotic.

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.

Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.

Democracy; Everyone's opinion is required! Autocracy; Someone's opinion is the best! Christocracy; What Christ said is FINAL!

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

At the current mental maturity of the human species, democracy is as barbarian and degrading as dictatorship - it just doesn’t feel that way, because of the illusory sense of control.

Democracy is like money; it is fake and unreal, the more people believe in it, the more tangible it becomes until it is the main currency of the kingdom; a fake benevolent form of trade is what it is.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.

Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.

For the people to have power, it is imperative that the people are competent, not simply intellectually, but in their entire psychological realm.

[Free trade agreements] are trade agreements that don't stick to trade…they colonize environmental labor, and consumer issues of grave concern (in terms of health safety, and livelihoods too) to many, many hundreds of millions of people - and they do that by subordinating consumer, environmental, and labor issues to the imperatives and the supremacy of international commerce. That is exactly the reverse of how democratic societies have progressed, because over the decades they've progressed by subordinating the profiteering priorities of companies to, say, higher environmental health standards; abolition of child labor; the right of workers to have fair worker standards…and it's this subordination of these three major categories that affect people's lives, labor, environment, the consumer, to the supremacy and domination of trade; where instead of trade getting on its knees and showing that it doesn't harm consumers - it doesn't deprive the important pharmaceuticals because of drug company monopolies, it doesn't damage the air and water and soil and food (environmentally), and it doesn't lacerate the rights of workers - no, it's just the opposite: it's workers and consumers and environments that have to kneel before this giant pedestal of commercial trade and prove that they are not, in a whole variety of ways, impeding international commerce…so this is the road to dictatorial devolution of democratic societies: because these trade agreements have the force of law, they've got enforcement teeth, and they bypass national courts, national regulatory agencies, in ways that really reflect a massive, silent, mega-corporate coup d'etat…that was pulled off in the mid-1990's.