Democracy Quotes
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
Dan Rather -
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
Chinua Achebe
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I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead -
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 -
Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.
F. William Engdahl -
Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
Harry Belafonte -
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
John James Ingalls -
Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
Walter Cronkite
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Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.
Blanche Lincoln -
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
Nancy Gibbs -
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Garry Kasparov -
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
Jack Schwartz -
I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
Valerie Plame
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
Nancy Gibbs -
There are now two Syrias. One is run by men who fight for God, not democracy. The other is ruled by a secular but authoritarian regime accused of many crimes against its people. The choice between the two will not be decided at the polls.
Paul Wood -
We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
Hal Holbrook -
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Otto Hermann Kahn -
We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
James E. Rogers -
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
Octavio Paz
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
Pat Buchanan -
Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.
Pat Buchanan -
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.