Democratic Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

  Oliver Tambo

  Atheism, United

  Speech at the Georgetown University, www.sahistory.org.za. January 27, 1987.

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• The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

  Tim Holden

  Attitude, Holocaust, Events

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• There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Patriotic, Force, Idealism

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.5, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Responsibility, Past

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

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• 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'.

  Ronald Reagan

  Money, Cat, Politics

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable - their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.

  Michelle Obama

  Sacrifice, Unconditional Love, Way

  Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Believe, Wmds In Iraq

  Senate debate on using military force against Iraq, October 9, 2002.

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