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Democracy Quotes
"That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust."
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"A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail."
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"And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California."
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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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"Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy."
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"I think Democrats keep the commandments of the Lord more."
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"While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."
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"Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship."
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"Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us."
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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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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
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"Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East."
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"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
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"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy."
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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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"Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke."
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"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed."
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"While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance."
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"You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions."
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"Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country."
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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
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"Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep."
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"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
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"Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected."
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"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
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"However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone."
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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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"Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them."
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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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"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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"I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term."
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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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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"In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy."
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"In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man."
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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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