Democratic Quotes

• The Democratic coalition has changed. It includes environmentalists and women's groups. It's a very different party. And so labor is still a part of it, but it's not the dominant part that it once was.

  

  Stuart Rothenberg
  • Different
  • Party
  • Environmentalist

• Participation is a hallmark of democratic governance.

  

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
  • Democratic
  • Participation
  • Governance

• I think we need a life-loving Palestine living by a Jewish democratic Israel.

  

  Ari Shavit
  • Democratic
  • Jewish
  • Palestine

• Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

  

  William Hague
  • World
  • Action
  • Forever

• Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

  

  Ela Bhatt
  • Society
  • Childhood
  • Values

• I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Party
  • Conservative
  • Capitalism

• It's now time to organize and move forward. It's time for deep thinking, reformation of the Democratic Party.

  

  Katrina vanden Heuvel
  • Party
  • Moving
  • Forward

• This savagery of materialism, the scent of blood rousing ferocious instincts, obtrudes the age of the brute into the age of man. Democratic freedom has not yet cuts its wisdom teeth...

  

  Ezra Heywood
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Democratic

• Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.

  

  Judy Biggert
  • Country
  • Generous
  • Tolerant

• The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • American
  • Idea
  • Democratic

• Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

  

  George Will
  • Party
  • Office
  • Republican

• Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Violence
  • Response
  • Grievance

• America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the stronger - not only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • America
  • Darkness
  • Survive

• Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?

  

  Susan Estrich
  • Politician
  • Republican
  • Feminine

• If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • World
  • War
  • Church

• Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

  

  George Will
  • Enjoy
  • Baseball
  • Democratic

• We need candidates who are deeply rooted in their communities, working-class people who understand the struggles their neighbors face. That is the future of the Democratic Party.

  

  Richard Ojeda
  • Understand
  • Communities
  • Candidates

• the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • World
  • Culture
  • Finest

• It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • India
  • Methods
  • Bagged

• We're getting to the point where we're impinging on democratic institutions in this country and I think, you know, it takes a certain - not a suspension of disbelief - but willingness to go along with other people to get the ship of state going forward. I'm not sure that happens in a [Donald] Trump presidency, frankly.

  

  William Weld
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Revolution
  • Democratic
  • Western

• In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Political
  • Influence
  • Democratic

• People want an end to this, and the only way you can stop Brexit in a democratic exercise like a general election is to say you would revoke.

  

  Edward Davey
  • People
  • Election
  • Revoke

• We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • War
  • Powerful
  • Struggle

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