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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 probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
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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'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term."
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"Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to."
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"Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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"The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation."
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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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"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."
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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
"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."
People
"I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals."
Question
"Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy."
Policy
"And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech."
Hope
"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."
Rights
"What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity."
Party
"There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy."
Democracy
"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."
Hope
"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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