Democratic Quotes - Page 39

• As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis of its authoritarian social program. Indeed, according to Bertram Gross in his startlingly prescient Friendly Fascism (1980), it is possible to achieve fascist goals within an ostensibly democratic society.

  Richard Heinberg

  Government, Goal, Political

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• Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians! It's no different! It is the same thing! It is happening all over again! It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians! Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today! More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history!

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Stupid, America

  "Toss (some of 'em) to the lions". "The Tuscaloosa News" Newspaper, 6A, September 15, 1993.

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• Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Israel, Presidential, Adherence

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• Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. ... Most, if not all of you, have very deep ties with the land and with the people of Israel, as I do; for my Christian faith sprang from yours. The Bible stories are woven into my childhood memories as the gallant struggle of modem Jews to be free of persecution is also woven into our souls.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Christian, Spiritual, Memories

  "A Just and Dignified Peace". Lyndon Johnson's Speech on the state of the Middle East, September 10, 1968.

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• Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Strong, Unique

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• Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spring, Government, Presidential

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958".

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• Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Political, Principles

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• People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

  Friedrich Engels

  Taken, Thinking, Reality

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1959). “Basic writings on politics and philosophy”, Anchor

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• We're looking for something that sounds like a member of the Republican Party. The reality is, he's playing for the Democratic vote at this point ... but he has to give something to create energy among conservatives.

  Steven Frank

  Party, Reality, Giving

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• People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

  Jose Saramago

  Reality, Government, Hymns

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?

  David Brooks

  Summer, Home, School

  "Democratic aristocrats and blue collar Republicans". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2004.

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• And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate, but the fact of the matter is we used the same advisers and they say it's the same plan.

  Barack Obama

  Presidential, Advice, Massachusetts

  First presidential Obama-Romney debate at the University of Denver, Colorado, www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The DEMOCRATIC idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Government, Class

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896

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• I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

  Winston Churchill

  Play, Ideas, Dwelling

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people.

  Richard J. Daley

  Party, People, Political

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• The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it was the liberal wing of the Democratic Party that ended segregation. The fact is that it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who gave hope to a nation that was in despair and could have slid into dictatorship. And the fact is, every Republican has much to learn from studying what the Democrats did right.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Fighting, Wings

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• In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.

  Jay Gould

  Political, Politics, Republican

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• The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo-and today there can be no status quo.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Men, Past

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• And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We Democrats can run on our record but we cannot rest on it. We will win if we continue to take the initiative and if we carry the message of hope and action throughout the country. Alexander Smith once said, 'A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.' Let us continue to plant, and our children shall reap the harvest. That is our destiny as Democrats.

  Robert Kennedy

  Running, Country, Children

  Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that while Democratic and Republican leaders differ sharply, their voters do not.

  Dick Morris

  Party, Keys, Leader

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.96, St. Martin's Press

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• We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

  George W. Bush

  Community, Peaceful, Historical

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• Our aim is a democratic peace.

  George W. Bush

  Historical, Aim

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Thank You, Party, Opportunity

  "Tea Party: Thank You for Your Insanity" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2012.

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• I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

  Abdallah II

  Thinking, Class, People

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• We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

  Edward Bernays

  Men, Ideas, Numbers

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.4, Lulu.com

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