Marianne Williamson Quotes
As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.Marianne Williamson
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
Vaclav Klaus -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
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 -
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 -
Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
Zhu Rongji -
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 -
The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
Gary Miller Bad Brains -
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Ralph Nader -
From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
Narendra Modi -
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx -
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
Mao Zedong
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I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
Sammy Sosa -
As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
Samantha Power -
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 -
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Otto Hermann Kahn -
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 -
Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
Barack Obama
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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 -
We have a decision to make every hour of every day, and that is whether to represent the sword or the shield. Democracy now.
Amy Goodman -
The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
James Cook -
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.
David Brin -
As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.
Marianne Williamson