Democratic Quotes

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

No country is free unless it is democratic.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

What democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own almost 90 percent - almost - own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That it is wrong, today, in a rigged economy, that 57 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. That when you look around the world, you see every other major country providing health care to all people as a right, except the United States.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something so utterly different that few of those who wish it would be prepared to accept the consequences, many will not believe until the connection has been laid bare in all its aspects.

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it.

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

We had the opposition of virtually the entire Democratic leadership in every state in this country.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.