Democracy Quotes
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Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.
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I think our politicians are bought by the highest bidder and that until we clean up our election system, then we cannot make progress on any of the issues. That's what drives me - we must restore our democracy.
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The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.
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Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.
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Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.
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In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.
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Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
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Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there.
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Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond to it.
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We are at a point in our nation's history when the right leadership is needed more than ever. Hillary has spent her life advocating for poor and working class families. Hillary will help build an economy for tomorrow and beyond; strengthen America's families; defend our country and its core values; and revitalize our democracy.
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Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.
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There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.
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If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing questions larger than self... I have seen that ennobling effect in people many, many times- expressed by those who found themselves engaged in genuine acts of democratic expression, who claimed their right to define the larger destiny of their community, their nations.
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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.
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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.
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American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
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I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.
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We need some rules changes. This is an outrage that this, the oldest democracy has now, you know, ranked - when I say ranked 59th, it means that in the percentage of women, in our national parliament, our National Congress, is now ranks 59th from the top. That means 58 countries have more women than we do in percentage wise.
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So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.
