Top 1200 Democratic Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
If you're going to be a fighter, and you're going to fight for the future of this country and lead the Democratic Party, then you can't be ducking fights.
In the end, democratic societies are stronger and more resilient than any autocracy. And more adaptable too.
My working style is democratic and I want people to be honest with me. Reputation makes everyone agree with your point, which is dangerous for any filmmaker.
With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.
It is clear that the radical left has taken over the Democratic Party, leaving behind the party of John F. Kennedy.
Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful.
I am not clear what the U.S. means when they use the term "entity." For us here in Taiwan, we believe that we are a country, a democratic country.
In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too.
Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
What I don't want to see my Democratic party do is to begin to talk down towards white men, as if their concerns are not legitimate and that we shouldn't be listening to a lot of their aspirations and hopes as well.
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.
I've been a loud voice as a Democratic leader for years, but that's not my job now. My job is to represent fishermen and farmers - everyone.
You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.
For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response.
I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.
I'm a pro forma Bernie Sanders donor. In years past, when Michael Harrington was still alive, I was a very active member of Democratic Socialists of America.
People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.
Without doubt, timely and democratic access to financial and market information contributes to smoothly functioning financial markets.
[Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an absolute assault on our democracy.
From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.
I take note of the fact that there are a lot of people who appreciate what I do as parliament president, not just within my Social Democratic party group, but also among the conservatives.
There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.
The Democratic Party likes to remind people that the Russian force around that was very strong, remarkably strong.
Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.
I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.
Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.
I believe in a democratic approach to fashion: if you feel good, then great. You may not look good, but it's not the problem.
To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.
Well, I've worked with Republican presidents, obviously, and Democratic presidents since I've had the privilege to remain as mayor.
Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.
The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.
I have been a Democrat ever since I registered to vote, and I'll stay a Democrat, but that's because of what the Democratic Party was supposed to be.
I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.
The House Republican conference can tolerate a member who caters to the Democratic media complex in order to further her personal agenda. However, she can't be in leadership.
Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.
As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.
So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.
The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.
Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.
Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).
Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don't want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people.
Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
The Democratic Party is very afraid of having competition that is actually unmuzzled and that can tell the truth, which is why they keep this fear voting system in place.
The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.
Ethics knows no party. Those rules should be applied the same in a Republican administration and a Democratic administration.
One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.
