Best 251 quotes in «democratic quotes» category

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

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

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

We are a strong democratic country.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success.

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

Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!

[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.

If the Nazis are Socialists simply because they call themselves Socialists, then North Korea really is a Democratic Republic.

In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen!

In a democracy government is the God.

In an era of globalization, we recognize that we are part of a global society, but we have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to guide us in this endeavor. We have not yet found a way to expand the spiritual ideals of democracy so that they pertain to every human being, every animal, and every plant. Until we do, human civilization and the Earth's ecosystem will continue to be in peril.

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they call 'middle-of-the-road' in most cases just means you have a hard time figuring out who between options is dumber. So quite often those who refused to decide were, after all, the bold individuals, the influential ones, the creative ones, those who snatched their own authority.

I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parties as a form of insanity.