Martin Schulz Quotes

Predictions of a disappearing political center are a warning of a bleak future that we can avoid only by adhering to our nation's founding principles.

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.

As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened by division; with law and order when it is subverted by anarchy; and always, I will try to sustain it by wise policies of economic progress so that a democracy means not just an empty liberty, but a full life for all.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years.

What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

For politics to change … culture must change too --- and that takes much more than dispatching troops, holding elections, and writing constitutions.

Only basic agreement on the major objectives of the state can provide a society with a firm basis for democracy.

The city where 7 million people live in peace and enjoy the benefits of democracy.

The first priority is to make the change from a revolutionary mentality to a civil society in which there is respect for law.

If you don't have a democracy in which most people feel engaged, you don't have a democracy very long.

When Barcelona came out of the Franco dictatorship in 1975, the first thing city officials did was to make 200 public squares where people could meet and talk to each other as a sign that democracy had returned.

The vitality of democracy in the 1960s, raised questions about the governability of democracy in the 1970s.

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

Hillary Clinton is the problem; she is not the solution to Donald Trump. We are the solution. We are the ones we've been waiting for. This is our moment. Together, we do have the power to create an America and a world that works for all of us.

Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.

Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government.

Freedom will not prevail because of historical forces; it will only win, if it does, because of historical actors. In other words, us. Those like me who came of age around 1989 used to take democracy for granted.

Our common goal is to keep Hong Kong from chaos, severe polarisation, and violence.

The New Order wants to implement democracy in economy. It is an order to achieve a social, political, economic, and cultural society with Pancasila and Belief in God Almighty as our moral values.