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"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
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"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
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"There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy."
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"Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself."
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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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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
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"I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy."
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"Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview."
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"What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong."
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"The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied."
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"I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned."
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"I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make."
Finance
"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
Democracy
"I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy."
History
"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."
Peace
"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read."
Mother
"We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is."
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"There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place."
Time
"What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?"
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"Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man."
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