#demo

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#anything #before #cannot #demonstrable #evident

The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#against #because #care #charges #democratic

No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#democratic #democratic party #equal #men #men and women

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#county #democratic #democratic party #happened #just

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#democratic #democratic party #far #go #gone

There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#democracy #distinctly #inherent #level #little

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#against #because #been #began #course

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target. ↗

— Dario Fo

#based #become #being #consensus #democratic

I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, 'what was Obama's record?' Governor Romney's got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#day #demonize #end #end of the day #failed

We march on, though sometimes strange moods fill our children. Our march toward security and peace is the march of freedom—the freedom that we should like to become a living part of. It is the dignity of the individual to live in a society of free men, where the spirit of understanding and belief exists; of understanding that all men, whatever their color, race, religion or estate, should be given equal opportunity to serve themselves and each other according to their needs and abilities. But we are not really free unless we use what we produce. So long as the fruit of our labor is denied us, so long will want manifest itself in a world of slaves. It is only when we have plenty to eat—plenty of everything— that we begin to understand what freedom means. To us, freedom is not an intangible thing. When we have enough to eat, then we are healthy enough to enjoy what we eat. Then we have the time and ability to read and think and discuss things. Then we are not merely living but also becoming a creative part of life. It is only then that we become a growing part of democracy. ↗

— Carlos Bulosan

#freedom #equality