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Democracy Quotes
"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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"Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point."
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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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"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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"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."
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"Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation."
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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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"In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy."
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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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"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity."
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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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"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."
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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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"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
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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."
12
"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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"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."
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"Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship."
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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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"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."
8
"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."
8
"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 a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."
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"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
7
"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."
7
"The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about."
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"You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun."
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
7
"You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know."
6
"I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there."
6
"But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges."
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