Democracy Quotes
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If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
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India's dynamic growth, coupled with its large reservoir of skilled workforce, its commitment to democracy, and the rule of law, all taken together make India a very attractive investment destination.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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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.
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Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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For action has been taken within the three-way framework of the Constitution of the United States. The coordinate branches of the Government continue freely to function. The Bill of Rights remains inviolate. The freedom of elections is wholly maintained. Prophets of the downfall of American democracy have seen their dire predictions come to naught.
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In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.
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Our leaders pay lip service to the freedoms that democracy provides while actually supporting an economic structure that imprisons its citizens under more and more debt.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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True democracy makes no enquiry about the color of skin, or the place of nativity, whereever it sees man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights.
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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.
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Yet people who benefit from all this now viciously defy Westminster, purporting to act as though they were an elected government; people who spend their lives sponging on Westminster and British democracy and then systematically assault democratic methods. Who do these people think they are?
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In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
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I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be the first to go - and the rest stay. That will work just fine. But unless they want to give up democracy, I don't see greater fiscal union as the answer.
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The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
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We've discussed democracy, we have a clause of democracy, ... We've discussed what's needed to help the 800 million people in the hemisphere. We have discussed the environment, we have discussed education, we have discussed health, and all the leaders were very, very happy with what happened.
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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Garry Kasparov -
The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.
