Quotes about democracy
democracy foreign good honesty jobs message open policy starts
The message is one of jobs and democracy and honesty and open government, ... Good foreign policy starts in your neighborhood. Laura Bush
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The Mexican public is disappointed with their leaders because they hoped democracy would solve all their problems and it hasn't. Democracy was oversold to people.
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Their example is an inspiration to all who share the universal values of freedom, democracy and the rule of law, ... This is a document of which the Iraqis and the rest of the world can be proud.
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Their efforts are a tribute to democracy and an example that difficult problems can be solved peacefully through debate, negotiation and compromise. George W. Bush
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Syria has been on the wrong side of history. Increasingly, the rest of the Middle East is moving towards democracy and freedom. On the other hand, Syria has always supported terror. David Kennedy
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It's in the interest of that district that democracy be preserved.
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Nothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such importance. Winston Churchill
democracy requires vote
It's not enough to vote for a democracy, ... Democracy requires vigilance. Democracy requires patience. Jesse Jackson
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They have seven months to listen to us, to the voters, and to do the right thing. The people have spoken. This is what democracy looks like.
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No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.' Ciaran Hinds
democracy want what-you-want
Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do. Ray Bradbury
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Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy. Ramsey Clark
democracy faults constitution
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in the Middle East is going to love us. They are not going to love us. Rand Paul
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If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you. Ralph Nader
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Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.
democracy plutocracy
We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.
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The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'
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Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy. Noam Chomsky
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One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.
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Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
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Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.
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There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word "democracy" - recall that they called what they'd constructed "peoples' democracies." The weird offshoot of ultra-right individualist anarchism that is called "libertarian" here happens to amount to advocacy of perhaps the worst kind of imaginable tyranny, namely unaccountable private tyranny. If they want to call that "libertarian," fine; after all, Stalin called his system "democratic." But why bother arguing about it?
democracy needs democratic
The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.
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We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed John Ashcroft
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Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.
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A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy. Theodore Roosevelt
democracy demand suspension
Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them. Margaret Halsey
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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians. Joseph Stalin
democracy engagement electorate
Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed. Melissa Bean
democracy fairs efficient
Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair. Mario Cuomo
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In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself.
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In too many countries, leaders speak of democracy, yet rig elections, suppress dissent, and shackle the press. Harold Koh