Democratic Quotes

• The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Liberty
  • Judging
  • Affair

• We love your adherence to democratic principles.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Principles
  • Democratic
  • Adherence

• I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Important
  • Democratic
  • Photographer

• I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.

  

  Eric Massa
  • Party
  • Leadership
  • Cancer

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Money that is in billions and monopolies isn't money at all, because the people have none, and money is democratic, everyone has to have some or there's none at all.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Money
  • Democratic
  • Monopolies

• Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a historical person than a marker for democratic personhood, can't really write a memoir full of a life's particularities.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Book
  • Democratic
  • Historical Person

• 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

• I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free, open-market economy integrated with the world. And I believe in equality of opportunity. Those are my basic beliefs. On top of that, of course, I believe in some moral values.

  

  Sebastian Pinera
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Moral

• Israel is the only truly democratic, secular country in the Middle East, right in the middle of all of them.

  

  Brigitte Gabriel
  • Israel
  • Democratic
  • Middle East

• Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Word
  • Democratic
  • Arts

• On July 20th, 1969, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took the most expensive selfie in history. As the apex of an 8-year, $130 billion effort, they posed in front of a camera and took a shot designed to do one thing - to show our free enterprise democratic system was better than the rigid, authoritarian system that wanted to destroy us.

  

  Rick Tumlinson
  • Democratic
  • Enterprise
  • Authoritarian

• The Democratic Party it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Party
  • Racism
  • Incredibles

• 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

• [Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Politics
  • Democratic
  • Resentment

• When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

  

  Rick Moranis
  • Thinking
  • Audience
  • Anybody

• 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

• This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We have used our public roadways for annual parades, protest marches, presidential inaugurations, marathons, and all manner of other events. The roads belong to us, and their use represents an important part of our free and democratic tradition.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Important
  • Tradition
  • Presidential

• 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
  • Treated

• They British people told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.

  

  Michael Gove
  • People
  • Giving
  • Immigration

• A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians-\-\risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has-\-\is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Wealth

• Many people think that Puerto Rico would be a Democratic state just by virtue of the inclination of the Latino population in the United States, but the reality is that I see Puerto Rico as a battleground state.

  

  Ricardo Rossello
  • People
  • Population
  • Inclination

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