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"In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks."
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"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"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."
"Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to."
"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
"The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation."
"I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect."
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"I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics."
"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics."
"But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership."
"It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems."
"It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large."
"I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other."
"Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries."
"I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated."
"So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations."
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