Quotes About Democratic

El señor González, mi «jefe», aunque sea bastante cretino, resulta, sin embargo, bastante agradable. Parece que siempre está atemorizado, demasiado, desde luego, para criticar la tarea de cualquier trabajador. En realidad, es capaz de aceptar casi cualquier cosa, y es, por tanto, atractivamente democrático, a su modo subnormal.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

The obligations of citizens is to make it clear that Aboriginal issues are central to our public concerns, that we want them dealt with in a fully democratic context of openness and justice, that we will vote accordingly.

She thought, Hmmm. She had an interest in the Senate, as a stepping-stone, and it was clear from early on that the main Democratic candidates would be the usual bunch of stooges, clowns, buffoons, apparatchiks, and small-town wannabees—and a witch—who couldn't have found Washington, D.C., with a Cadillac's navigation system and a Seeing Eye dog.

No," she said. "I've always been Republican policy, he's always been Democratic operations. We've worked on opposing political campaigns, of course, and we sometimes go to the same parties. I've known him for years, but we've never been . . . intimate. I don't mean that just in a sexual way, either. I mean, we've never really shared confidences.

Lastly, would not society become secretly more hierarchical as it became outwardly more democratic?

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

In the event, what actually happened was that citizens, without paying much attention to government at all, went about creating a national culture for themselves. Long before political parties became effective as national, democratic institutions, Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians were building the nerve system of a national culture.

The crucial difference was between the regimes of the old Right, who wanted to turn the clock back to a pre-democratic elitist era, and the new Right, who seized and sustained power through the instruments of mass politics.

press has been campaigning alongside Democratic politicians, officials, consultants, and surrogates for President Trump's impeachment since even before his nomination.

Indeed, social activism, progressive groupthink, Democratic Party partisanship, opinion and propaganda passed off as news, the staging of pseudo-events, self-censorship, bias by omission, and outright falsehoods are too often substituting for old-fashioned, objective fact gathering and news reporting.

Although they self-identify as political independents, Pew Research reports that the rising generation "vot[es] heavily Democratic and for liberal views on many political and social issues," including "a belief in an activist government.

George Mason professor Tim Groseclose argues that another effect [of a liberal media] is the "extremism-redefined principle," in which "the terms 'mainstream' and 'extreme' take on new meaning within the group. When the group is, say, very liberal, mainstream Democratic positions begin to be considered centrist, and positions that would normally be considered extremely left-wing become common place.

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

I believe that the Democratic party has a bright future, but that like any long lived entity it needs to address some fundamental issues.

Experts are saying that President Bush's goal now is to politically humiliate Saddam Hussein. Why don't we just make him the next Democratic presidential nominee?

The Greek city-states were as keen on winning battles as the Romans were, and most had little to do with the brief Athenian democratic experiment.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic society learn to separate good science from bunk. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity, as it affects where large portions of our tax money go, and in some cases even whether people's lives are lost as a result of nonsense.

The Tea Party was noteworthy for its hostility to both the Democratic and the Republican parties. When it turned to electoral politics, the Tea Party backed antiestablishment candidates, with a mixed record in general elections. That was because the Tea Party brought out both optimistic, forward-looking, mainstream supply-siders and pessimistic, anti-institutional, conspiracy-minded extremists.

En ese contexto, a los jóvenes ultras como como yo hasta los comunistas nos parecían reformistas y por eso les decíamos 'rabanitos', rojos por fuera y blancos por dentro. Ellos, con una visión mucho más estratégica dictada desde Moscú, no estaban por el salto directo a la lucha armada, sino por la utilización del sistema democrático para destruirlo evolutivamente, sin prisa pero sin pausa.

Physical proximity, of course, facilitates the common education of the affects, but also essential are the intense experiences of cooperation, the creation of mutual security in a situation of extreme vulnerability, and the collective deliberation and decision-making processes. The encampments are a great factory for the production of social and democratic affects.