Democratic Quotes

• All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Peace, War, Mean

  Democracy in America vol. 2, sec. 3, ch. 22 (1840) (translation by Henry Reeve)

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• Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

  Todd Akin

  Party, People, Democracy

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• We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Views, People, Perspective

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• The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

  Todd Gitlin

  Wise, Names, Patriotism

  "How to be radical? An interview with Todd Gitlin and George Monbiot". openDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

  Nigel Farage

  Jobs, People, Growth

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• So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Believe, Thinking

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• The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

  Ed Gillespie

  Party, Election, Angry

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• Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

  Patrick Murray

  Party, Names, Political

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• The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Baseball, Games, Genius

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• The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.

  Pete McCloskey

  Party, Hands, Hymns

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• Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

  Adam Rich

  Hymns, Band, Way

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• We are a strong democratic country.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Country, Strong, Hymns

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• Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

  Evan Sayet

  Party, Bills, Pumpkin

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• Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

  Charlie Crist

  Party, Men, Optimism

  Charlie Crist's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• 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.

  Glenn Danzig

  Party, People, Trying

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• The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Borders, Problem, Republican

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• Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Rights, People

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• The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

  Jeff Miller

  Years, Presidential, Political

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• I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.

  Robert Torricelli

  Loss, Majority, United States

  "Torricelli drops out of N.J. race". www.cnn.com. October 1, 2002.

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• Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Brother, Practice, Pioneers

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• I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Years, Voting, Racist

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• There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

  Robert Bourassa

  Detention, Civilised

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• The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then kept on doing all the rest of the things they normally do.

  Wes Boyd

  Party, Ideas, Use

  "A conversation with the founder of the powerful online progressive political organization". Interview with Don Hazen, www.montereycountyweekly.com. April 28, 2005.

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• Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

  George F. Kennan

  Figs, Procedures, Dictatorship

  Of postwar agreements to govern Eastern Europe. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas TheWise Men (1986).

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• I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Thinking, President

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