Democracy Quotes
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Democracy must learn to defend itself.
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We know that Obama wasn't vetted through the campaign, and now, you know, some things are coming home to roost, if you will, which is inexperience, his associations, and that ultimately harms our republic when a candidate isn't-isn't vetted by the media, that cornerstone of our democracy.
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Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
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democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.
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We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.
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Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.
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But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
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Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.
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We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
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We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
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Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.
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Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon us are raising millions of dollars in fund appeals by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, Norman Lear's People for the American Way, and others who claim to believe that the religious Right is the greatest peril to American democracy since Joe McCarthy.
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The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others. Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.
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I think that rather than talking about particular models, of which there could be a huge number, we should talk about basic principles of democracy. After all, even within the West, there is no single standard and single model.
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The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.
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The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people.
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We want to lead by our values and out interests in ways that, regardless of the trajectory over the next decade, people will know the United States was on the side of democracy, on the side of the rule of law.
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The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.
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Please continue to voice your beliefs, as your participation is the foundation of our country's democracy.
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Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
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Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.
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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
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China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.
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Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.
