Threat To Democracy Quotes

#1. The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

David Brooks

#2. The only habits you never conquer are the ones you put off doing something about.

Wess Roberts

#3. Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#4. Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday.

Achille Mbembe

#5. This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.

Nelson Mandela

#6. The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

Vaclav Klaus

#7. Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

James Lovelock

#8. More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason.

Georges Bernanos

#9. It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.

Lang Leav

#10. Today the Iraqi and Afghan people are on the path to democracy and freedom. The governments that are rising will pose no threat to others. Instead of harboring terrorists, they're fighting terrorist groups. And this progress is good for the long-term security of all of us.

George W. Bush

#11. We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

Bill Gates

#12. While we see democracy coming to the Arab world, democracy is getting weaker in Israel. Democracy is in jeopardy in Israel, and this threat is greater than the external threat.

Tom Segev

#13. Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy.

James Comey

#14. The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.

James E. Rogers

#15. Children are the purest manifestation of love and divinity in the world; they care, they are considerate and they know more about humanity than the smartest adult. We must protect, guide and allow the children of our world to flourish because they are the key to heal this broken planet.

Sam Fuentes

#16. Pay 2 Play vividly tells the story of the threat posed to our political process by big money interests and what we can do to fight back to defend our Republic. This is a must-see movie for anyone who cares about the cause of democracy and the promise of political equality for all.

John Bonifaz

#17. The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

Phil Donahue

#18. I never thought I would be divorced.

Andrew Cuomo

#19. The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

John Lanchester

#20. I think that too many strangers were in Nina Simone life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.

Nikki Giovanni

#21. The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Paul Wellstone

#22. All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Roald Dahl

#23. We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.

Nelson Mandela

#24. Fundamentalist Christianity is not just a threat to lesbians and gays, but to all Americans who cherish democracy and the rights and protections guaranteed us by the U.S. constitution.

Mel White

#25. We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

Paul Wolfowitz

#26. We nurture the candle flames that show the way ahead. We are guerrillas of the word, unsung heroes breathing softly on the embers of the human mind, so that they might re-ignite the hearths around which we once found safe haven. The book is the Light and the Life.

Mark Cantrell

#27. Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,

Joseph Estrada

#28. At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

Tom Petty

#29. One dies of thirst just when the palm tress have appeared on the horizon.

Paulo Coelho