Abram L. Sachar Quotes
The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
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Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
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Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
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The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
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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.
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In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
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Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
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Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
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Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.
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A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
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The federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. It's an oceanliner, as I discovered when I came into office. It took a lot of really hard work for us to make significant policy changes, even in our first two years, when we had larger majorities than Mr. Trump will enjoy when he comes into office.
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I'm glad I'm a woman; I'm glad I'm a rapper because I get to speak to these people who did not get spoken for in this genre.
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I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.
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It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.
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I would like to save lives. Now you know, the gun lobby will say, "You can't stop everybody." And I would agree with that: You can't stop everybody. Isn't it worth stopping as many as possible, saving as many lives as we can? And I think comprehensive background checks and trying to keep guns outta the wrong hands would help us do that.
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The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
