Steve Earle Quotes
You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.
Steve Earle
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You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?
Barbara Boxer
Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
Ha-Joon Chang
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Olof Palme
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
Walter Winchell
The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.
Nathan Myhrvold
Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.
Barack Obama
Britain has been responsible for the undermining of democracy, turning a blind eye to abuses by its allies, using extraordinary rendition to get around the rule of law, passing over the denial of individual liberties to dissidents, and the evasion of the dismal situation for religious minorities.
Deeyah Khan
I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.
Adolf Hitler
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Saint Augustine
You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.
Steve Earle