"Democracy fascinates me."

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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Democracy, Giving, Tradition, Walking

"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."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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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."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"Democracy is too good to share with just anybody."

Nigel Rees, British Author

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"Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving."

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"One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience."

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"When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics."

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"Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people."

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"So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia."

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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."

"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

"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."

"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."

"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."

"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

"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."

"Democracy is too good to share with just anybody."

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"China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding."

"Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving."

"For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas."

"We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option."

"Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them."

"One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience."

"This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation."

"When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics."

"Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people."

"So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia."