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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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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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"Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rights of private persons. The attachment which men feel to a right, and the respect which they display for it, is generally proportioned to its importance, or to the length of time during which they have enjoyed it. The rights of private persons amongst democratic nations are commonly of small importance, of recent growth, and extremely precarious; the consequence is that they are often sacrificed without regret, and almost always violated without remorse."
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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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"Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview."
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"Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used."
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"I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy."
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"All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy."
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"The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board."
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"I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal."
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"In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement."
History
"The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus."
Politics
"All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look, or feel, either permanent or sustainable. I felt this when sitting in the old Ottoman courtyards of Jerusalem, and I felt it even more when I saw the hideous 'Fort Condo' settlements that had been thrown up around the city in order to give the opposite impression. If the statelet was only based on a narrow strip of the Mediterranean littoral (god having apparently ordered Moses to lead the Jews to one of the very few parts of the region with absolutely no oil at all), that would be bad enough. But in addition, it involved roosting on top of an ever-growing population that did not welcome the newcomers."
Politics
"If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women."
Equality
"Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery."
Psychology
"The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness)."
Fantasy
"The finest fury is the most controlled."
Control
"We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes."
Awareness
"To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation-is that good for the world?"
Morality
"What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation."
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