Democratic Quotes - Page 8

• As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

  Karl Rove

  Education, Hymns, People

  The New Yorker, February 19, 2001.

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• Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

  Evgeny Morozov

  May, Revolution, Western

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• Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Safety, Citizens, Driving

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  Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business, Tolerance, Democracy

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• We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

  Malcolm X

  Party, Men, Black

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Lying, And Love, Three

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• The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.

  Jimmy Carter

  Freedom, Struggle, Rights

  Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.154, University of Arkansas Press

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• The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.

  Antonin Scalia

  Law, Justice, People

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• In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Power, Framework

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• A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.

  Mario Bunge

  Racism, Belief, States

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Party, Political, Principles

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• One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.

  Barack Obama

  Passion, Government, Law

  Barack Obama's Remarks with President Pena Nieto of Mexico in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 22, 2016.

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• This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to express itself peacefully through discussion, through reason and through the voting process.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Views, Justice, Voting

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

  David Remnick

  Perfect, Democracy, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

  Whitney M. Young

  Practice, Democratic Ideals, America

  Whitney M. Young (1964). “To be equal”

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• I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Government, Constitution Of The United States

  Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.125, Heyday

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• The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Government, Republican

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• It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

  Chris Patten

  Tribes, Language, Affair

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• You know, to listen to Senator Lieberman, Senator Kerry, Representative Gephardt, I'm anti-Israel, I'm anti-trade, I'm anti-Medicare and I'm anti-Social Security. I wonder how I ended up in the Democratic Party. I'm not a new entrant to the Democratic Party. I've been here a long time.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Israel, Long

  Transcript to CNBC/WSJ Democratic Presidential Debate, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2003.

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• The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished in 19th century America better than 19th century Europe is because you had more equal distribution of wealth in America.

  Thomas Piketty

  Thinking, Europe, Democratic Ideals

  "French economist Thomas Piketty compares US economy to Europe in the Gilded Age". The Associated Press Interview, www.oregonlive.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

  Thomas Piketty

  Democratic Ideals, Luck, Inheritance

  "French economist Thomas Piketty compares US economy to Europe in the Gilded Age". Associated Press Interview, www.oregonlive.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Moving to Australia was not a career move, but a quality of life issue. It has no guns, no God, and no gangster rap. As an Ethiopian cab driver said to me the other day when I was returning from a gig in Sydney, Australia is a peaceful, democratic place. I like the relatively stress free lifestyle. It's worth the drop in income.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Stress, Rap, Moving

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• We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.

  Gilles Peress

  Mean, Age, Entering

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• It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject.

  W. H. Auden

  Photography, Art, Skills

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• The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Cutting

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