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"I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
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"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."
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"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
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"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
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"Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid."
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"Democracy is too good to share with just anybody."
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"I am saying that in Wales here we have a very clear election commitment and I hope, and I will express this view, I hope that every individual member of the Labour Party, will understand that and will strive to achieve unity so that we can deliver the yes vote in the Autumn."
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"What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity."
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"I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that."
Democracy

"There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy."
Democracy

"It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards."
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"Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance."
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"I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise."
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"I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals."
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"Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament."
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"The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised."
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