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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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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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"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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"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."
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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 fascinates me."
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"Democracy is not about one party dominating."
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"Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed."
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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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"Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers."
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"I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here."
Transportation
"We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers."
Money
"Southern California, where the American Dream came too true."
Dream
"I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope."
Hope
"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."
Democracy
"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."
Future
"And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war."
War
"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."
Money
"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."
Reading
"It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something."
Reading
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