Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kunda Dixit

Our parties are better at fighting for democracy than making it work.

Mahathir Mohamad

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive. Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war even.

Jeff Chester

Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.

Bernie Sanders

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.

Emma Bonino

landmark in a very difficult fragile development towards democracy.

Bill Vaughan

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

Bertrand Russell

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

Charles Clark

It is our duty to promote the view that democracy and not violence is the means of making change,

Helen Thomas

I suppose that's democracy really. But everybody with a laptop thinks they're a journalist these days. That's a problem.

Terry Lanni

Every time a new jurisdiction opens, I've heard that same comment, ... It's just a faulty assessment.

Bill Daly

Any suggestion that Bryan's positive test means that we have some widespread problem in the National Hockey League, I would suggest, is a faulty assumption.

Jeff Johnson

We'll also have it set up with all the necessary forms to submit your film online, and generally have the Web page be a better way for people to get information about the festival.

Mary Bailey

I went through working in many mediums before settling on wood. I like it as a medium. It is non-toxic, versatile in the forms you can get, and has a nice tactile quality.

Chris Coleman

I am glad he has tied his future to us, he forms an important part of my plans.

Harold Pinter

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Jim Angell

Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.

Fidel Castro

Neo-liberalism and globalization and the way they are being implemented today are tantamount to new and sophisticated forms of plundering,

Richard King

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Lindy Ruff

I think that we're getting there, ... Those are two lines that could stick for a while.

Andrew Friedman

I thought it went well. I thought it was important to keep the lines of communications open.

Steve Tyndal

If a trip is warranted, we take it. We also visit with several shipping lines around the world that have U.S. offices.

Antoni Gaudi

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is not they who will decide, but we when we go to the polls on Sunday,

Tony Wood

I would urge patrons to go to the polls and vote, ... I think it's important to participate in this process.

Dennis Prager

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Rudy Giuliani

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

Wolfgang Gerhardt

The real poll is on September 18 and we are going to win it.

Dan Savage

I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

John Payne

Usually, poll workers only go to school every third year, but because we have an exceptional circumstance, we required everyone to be there for all 15 classes.

David Tom

Voters will be surprised when they show up at their polling place and find they aren't on the rolls. There are a lot of things we don't feel comfortable with.

Oscar Arias

Today, we'll make reality what the polls have been saying.

Kailash Kher

I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

Two Chainz

I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.

Bart Stupak

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

Dick Thornburgh

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

Aaron Klein

Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

Dennis Prager

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life

Eleanor Clift

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

Alexander Hamilton

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

Conan O'Brien

The Republican-controlled House voted to repeal the healthcare bill. If that goes well, they'll see what they can do about this whole 'women voting' thing.

David Barton

You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

A. Scott Berg

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Cynthia Morgan

Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,

Dean Fryer

In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.

Gregory Benford

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

Kevin Nealon

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Ted Strickland

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.