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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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"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
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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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"Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel."
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"However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone."
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"We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq."
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"You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions."
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"While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."
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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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"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 best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."
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"Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats."
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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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"I think Democrats keep the commandments of the Lord more."
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"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
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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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"My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together."
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"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
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"Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us."
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"Our democracy depends on an informed citizenry to survive, Your Honor. Besides the advancement of truth, science and morality in general, the freedom of the press is a backbone of democracy. It exists to keep the government transparent, and the human instruments of government honest."
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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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"For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction."
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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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"Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected."
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"Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East."
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"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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"I believe in the greatness of our democracy."
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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
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"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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"In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy."
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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
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"We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters."
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"It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite."
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"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy."
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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
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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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