Democracy Quotes
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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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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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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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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy.
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Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.
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If there is a problem with democracy, the answer has to be more democracy.
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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Garry Kasparov
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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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I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.
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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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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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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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For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.
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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.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)
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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.
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The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
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I have no illusions about our elected politicians. Pakistani democracy is anything but perfect.
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But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I’m junk but I’m still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
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In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.
