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Democracy Quotes
"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."
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"I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy."
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"A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare."
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"We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty."
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"Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East."
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"The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will."
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"Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation."
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"Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point."
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"Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg."
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"In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world."
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"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."
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"We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation."
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"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity."
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"What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy."
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"In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy."
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"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
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"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."
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"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."
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"High hopes were once formed of democracy, but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
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"The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion."
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"What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic."
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"We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms."
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"All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy."
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"To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem."
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"Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light."
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"Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems."
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"You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun."
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"Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary."
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"When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to."
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"El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice."
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"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."
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"And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers."
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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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"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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"Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals."
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"We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats."
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