I want people to feel like they have access to Congress, that they have access to government.

Limiting the ability of the people to peacefully organize and partake in direct action to fight against persecution and discrimination is not only barred by the U.S. Constitution but is fundamentally...

I was born in India... Gujarat. I am an Indian! And India is a democratic country, anyone can stand for elections. I can also stand for elections.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a...

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

After witnessing the inauguration ceremonies, I am compelled to state how deeply grateful and infinitely thankful and eternally blessed I am to and by God for the privilege of being born and for...

This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst...

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

Once demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn't much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate's mood.

Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation...

The American President has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues. The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make 'em behave. Well, all...

I always had the faith that this country would elect those who knew best, who could follow the best course through any situation.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

Iran's previous attempts at democracy were thwarted by foreigners - the British and Russians in 1905–1911; the United States in 1953 - whose interests were served by suppressing all democratic...

People who vote for candidates bought by private business interests are not politically free in any real sense.

Our democracy cannot survive its current downward drift into tribalism, extremism, and seething resentment. Today it's "us versus them" in America. Politics is little more than blood sport. As a...

We return. We return from fighting. We return fighting. Make way for Democracy! We saved it in France, and by the Great Jehovah, we will save it in the United States of America, or know the reason...

Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

He didn't ask Where will you spend eternity? as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather, With what, in this modern democracy, will you meet the demands of your soul?