Democracy Quotes
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They are not, and almost everybody accepts this, entitled to engage in seeking to disrupt the way our democracy operates by violence or threats of violence.
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Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.
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I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.
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In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation.
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You know you have a transparency problem when citizens of a democracy need to rely on WikiLeaks for details on changes to laws.
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Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic.
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We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.
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There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.
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Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
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Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.
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Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.
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I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.
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In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.
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Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?
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Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
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It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.
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If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.
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Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
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Cultural pluralism is as important as political and multi- party pluralism. Religious, linguistic and cultural pluralism are vitally important hallmarks of a true democracy. We are against cultural hegemony of any sort. Diversity is a mark of a healthy democracy.
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However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
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Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
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The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.
