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Democracy Quotes
"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way."
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"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
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"I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others."
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"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."
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"Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation."
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"Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used."
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"Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems."
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"Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy."
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"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections."
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"I think Democrats keep the commandments of the Lord more."
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"Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy."
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"Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism."
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"The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry."
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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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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
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"In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks."
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"Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy."
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"Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy."
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"Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry."
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"Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms."
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"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats."
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"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant."
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"We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms."
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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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"In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders."
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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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"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."
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"The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not."
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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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"For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction."
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"Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke."
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"What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong."
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"We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction."
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"Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues."
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"And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves."
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"You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions."
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"Even though the Bush campaign ad tells you that Afghanistan is a new democracy at the Olympics because of Bush's efforts, Afghanistan hasn't actually had an election."
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"Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats."
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"In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy."
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"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."
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