Democracy Quotes
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I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.
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The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.
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Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.
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Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
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The DMZ does not divide the last bastion of communism from a liberal democracy; it divides a radical nationalist state from a moderate nationalist one.
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In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
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Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
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Democracy, voters, voting responsibility ... everyone in Vadodara ... the awakening of the voters was very important and I thank and congratulate them.
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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
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We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.
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...four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called a corporatocracy.'
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If you can't put your values into your vote, we don't have a democracy.
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One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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This is an absolute turning point in the story of our country because I think if we go on with being enmeshed in the E.U., it will continue to erode our democracy. That is something that worries me.
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Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.
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It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.
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A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.
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Democracy has to be judged not just by the institutions that formally exist but by the extent to which different voices from diverse sections of the people can actually be heard.
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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.
