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"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone."
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"I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined."
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"I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy."
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"Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for."
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"In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them."
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"Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves."
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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
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"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty."
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"If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China."
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"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
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"Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!"
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"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
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"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."
Work
"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
Film
"Memories are doing funny things to us."
Fun
"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."
Experience
"And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know."
Control
"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."
Humor
"I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival."
Politics
"You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing."
Sex
"So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good."
God
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