Democracy Quotes
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.
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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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[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.
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Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
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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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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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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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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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The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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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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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.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.
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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.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
