Bill Owens Quotes
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
Vaclav Klaus
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
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Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
Babasaheb
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
Gary Oldman
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
Tatyana Ali
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Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
Aaron Brown
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
Ralph Nader
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
Dan Rather
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I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.
Rachel Sklar
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
Jack Schwartz
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We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.
Parker Palmer
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Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
Wen Jiabao
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The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.
Dambisa Moyo
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Otto Hermann Kahn
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I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
Walter Cronkite
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
Barack Obama
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Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.
Chuck Hagel
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I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.
Aleqa Hammond
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In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasn't my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so it's not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.
Dorothy Hamill
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The House adjourned without voting on the bill, but the following year a similar bill—mandating equality in hotels and restaurants open to the public, in transportation facilities, in theaters and other public amusements and in the selection of juries—passed both chambers. The measure reached the White House about the time the two sides in Louisiana cobbled a compromise that allowed Grant to withdraw Sheridan and most of the federal troops. On March 1, 1875, the president signed the Civil Rights Act, the most ambitious affirmation of racial equality in American history...
H. W. Brands
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It will take years to bring Iraq the democracy it deserves.
Bill Owens