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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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"Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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"The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy."
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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
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"Our nations (India and USA) may have been shaped by differing histories, cultures, and faiths. Yet, our belief in democracy for our nations and liberty for our countrymen is common. The idea that all citizens are created equal is a central pillar of the American constitution. Our founding fathers too shared the same belief and sought individual liberty for every citizen of India."
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"Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of any particular vote. When he is merely one of millions, the individual elector feels himself to be impotent, a negligible quantity. The candidates he has voted into office are far away, at the top of the pyramid of power. Theoretically they are the servants of the people; but in fact it is the servants who give orders and the people, far off at the base of the great pyramid, who must obey."
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"But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges."
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"No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy."
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"Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry."
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"A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency."
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"I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction."
Government
"The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate."
Change
"Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party."
Conservative
"I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy."
Democracy
"Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism."
Government
"Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional."
Marriage
"Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation."
Justice
"It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer."
Life
"I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech."
Freedom
"Like 84% of Canadians, I believe in God."
God
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