Best 251 quotes in «democratic quotes» category

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

I often felt myself the lone voice in discussions suggesting that basic democratic principles be followed. I recommended that not only should workers' voices be heard, but they should actually have a seat at the table. You have the old boys' club discussing how the old boys' club should be reformed.

I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.

In the end, democratic societies are stronger and more resilient than any autocracy. And more adaptable too.

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

Is there's always an idea that the party will continue the movement but that movement always dies inside the Democratic Party.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term

I think Hillary Clinton's been's depressing democratic turnout.

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

I think we need a life-loving Palestine living by a Jewish democratic Israel.

I think the Democrat Party is taking its cue from the media. When the media has a narrative, whether it's the use of profanity, the Democratic Party follows it.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it.

It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation, a new democratic nation composed of united capital and labor.

It's a bit questionable whether Turkey is a model country or not, since our government is supporting ISIS in Syria, since there are legislations that are not in line with democratic rules.

It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

I've always lived 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.

I was raised with a sense of democratic vistas and egalitarianism.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

I would ask [protesters] to please respect - I'd ask them to please respect the democratic process.

I would not vote for the Democratic candidate. I could not vote for Donald Trump. I would therefore have to write in someone. I could get behind any other Republican candidate, any of them.

Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Maybe he [Bernie Sanders] still thinks about the Democratic Party as the party of the New Deal.

Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in.

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote.

money that is in billions and monopolies isn't money at all, because the people have none, and money is democratic, everyone has to have some or there's none at all.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.

[Nancy] Pelosi personifies this [Democratic] party's repudiation.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.

No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.

Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.

One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.

One of the great virtues of our democratic system is that only one of the candidates gets elected.

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

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

Presidential Democratic front-runner Howard Dean admitted to Chris Matthews on the 'Hardball' show that he got out of the draft because of a bad back. He had a curvature of the spine. Apparently it curved too far to the left.

President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.

Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.