It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.
I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats.
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.
It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
When I began my work on how morality varies across the political spectrum, there was a partisan, manipulative element to it. I wanted to help the Democrats win.
Can a conservative work safely and soundly in a union environment - in a shop filled with union workers, activists, voters and life-long supporters of the Democrat Party? You betcha.
I'm going to reach out to everybody, Democrat, Republican and independent. I'm going to work with all the people in the district, and whether they're an 'R' or a 'D' doesn't matter.
We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn't vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960.
Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.
In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.
I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.
You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.
A brick is what I’m voting for for President. And guess what? If you’re voting for a Republican or Democrat, so are you.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.
