Democratic Quotes - page 44

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting. (Jay Griffiths)
The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. View quote
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected. View quote
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship. View quote
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it. View quote
Jeff Miller
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year. View quote
Jeff Miller
You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity. View quote
Jehane Noujaim
Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only. View quote
Jemima Khan
Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States. View quote
Jennifer Granholm
In view of Chinas growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asias permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies. View quote
Jim Costa
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free. (Jim DeMint)
The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement. View quote
Joe Slovo
For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody. View quote
John Barrasso
The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body. View quote
John Bruton
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. View quote
John Drinkwater
The Democratic Party is always going to be the party of civil rights and fairness - everybody gets an equal, fair shot at the American dream. And we're going to be the party that really fights to protect planet Earth - enjoy whatever time we're going to get! View quote
John Hickenlooper
I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team. View quote
John Mahoney
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. View quote
John Negroponte
Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S. View quote
John Olver
In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered. View quote
John Podhoretz
Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket. (John Podhoretz)
Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either. View quote
Jon Meacham
If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory. View quote
Judy Woodruff
No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and support views that are upheld and defended by many law-abiding citizens, the only way to tackle them is through democratic debate. View quote
Julian Baggini
Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being. View quote
James Belushi