Democratic Quotes - page 2

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace. (George W. Bush)
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. View quote
George W. Bush
Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics. View quote
Neil Kinnock
Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process. View quote
Greg Bear
I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes. View quote
Al Sharpton
We already had success in creating a democratic, national government that is revolutionary and popular. That is how socialism begins, not with decrees. View quote
Salvador Allende
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world. View quote
Clare Boothe Luce
Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't. View quote
Patrick Murray
You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state. View quote
Václav Klaus
Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. (Thomas Szasz)
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism. View quote
Maajid Nawaz
The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final. View quote
Vladimir Putin
The basis of a democratic state is liberty. View quote
Aristotle
Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense. View quote
John Ralston Saul
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. View quote
Ronald Reagan
American is the first democratic nation-state. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. View quote
Eugenio Montale
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. View quote
Peter L. Berger
I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport. View quote
Jack Kemp
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. (Clive Barnes)
When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11. View quote
Ed Gillespie
The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right. View quote
Glenn Danzig
The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values. View quote
Tim Holden
The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women. View quote
Tawakkol Karman