Top 1200 Democratic Ideals Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.

An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic?

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

The concept of multiculturalism is difficult to make fit with a democratic society.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

I have been in the Democratic Caucus in the Senate for over 24 years.

Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.

Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party.

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

A democratic government in South Africa is not a threat to white people.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

Some of my best friends are Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

It's so interesting, when you're a parent, you have these big ideals. Before I had kids, you imagine this sort of egalitarian society. You project this perfect world on the path you're going to set for your kids.

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

An opposition that won't oppose paralyses our political and democratic system.

I think [ chief organizer of the Democratic Party ] it's something that I have an interest in.

We have to have a conversation where we bring in all the stakeholders and say, 'What is the vision of the Democratic Party?'

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.

Women are still congenitally Democratic - and I'm the Republican pollster saying that.

It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

Confronting Republicans can definitely mobilize a disaffected Democratic base.

Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.

Free media is very essential for the democratic process and... development.

Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters.

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

Laws on hate speech and hate crimes do important work in a world that has been rooted in racism and bigotry since the inception of this country, which was not founded on ideals of justice.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

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

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

I have helped shape in the past the Democratic Party's agenda on innovation.

We can establish a Jewish and democratic state, but the burden of proof is on us.

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.