“He was not a theocrat but a pluralist who lobbied for equal voice for all in the public square.”

“The leader of the largest atheist nation was even afforded a rare audience with Iran's top theocrat, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.”

“When Day began his career in federal politics, he had already established a reputation as a budget slayer and theocrat at the provincial level in Alberta.”

“Iran has made the transition in the last twenty years from a nominal constitutional monarchy to a democratic theocracy.”

“Putting God in the public square runs the risk of turning our democracy into a theocracy.”

“When Aikenhead climbed the scaffold Scotland was not far off being a theocracy in everything but name.”

“Unquestionably those good English zealots founded unforgiving theocracies on the soil of New England.”

“These states have remained theocracies, and so sharia, or Koranic law, remains the highest authority, even for secular potentates.”

“This is the fundamental difference between kingdoms, theocracies, feudal states, and a democratic republic.”

“In October, the voters in Afghanistan refused to elect a bunch of fanatic theocrats to rule them and the Iraqis have done likewise.”

“He, and the theocrats who deputized him, have been working for twenty years to do exactly that.”

“And citizens, not theocrats, choose. Cut it freeDisestablishing the Church of England does not mean that it has no public role to play.”