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Democracy Quotes
"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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"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone."
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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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"To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem."
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"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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"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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"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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"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."
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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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"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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"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 believe in the greatness of our democracy."
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"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy."
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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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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
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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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"For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction."
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"I think Democrats keep the commandments of the Lord more."
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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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"Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel."
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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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"I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy."
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