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"Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues."
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"I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined."
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"I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy."
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"Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for."
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"In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them."
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"Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves."
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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
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"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty."
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"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
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"Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!"
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"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
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"Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues."
Democracy
"So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age."
Age
"I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased."
Love
"The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy."
People
"I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas."
Politics
"I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong."
People
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks."
Vigilance
"The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it."
Power
"I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it."
Competition
"Ethics in government has always been important to me."
Government
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