#racy

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#electorate #essence #free

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#because #bureaucracy #confuses #conservatives #guns

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ↗

— Michael Novak

#democracy #designed #each #institutions #noise

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men. ↗

— Novalis

#democracy #fact #highest #men #rights

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#criticism #criticize #democracy #destructive #freedom

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#else #everywhere #here #losing #mideast

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#believe #church #citizens #democracy #dogma

I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world. ↗

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

#beautiful #beautiful women #conspiracy #i #i think

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#dispose #disposes #dumping #government #must

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#burning #concern #constant #dedication #democracy