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Democracy Quotes
"Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush."
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"Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism."
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"I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect."
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"I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism."
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"After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first."
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"I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy."
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"In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks."
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"Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections."
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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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"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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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
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"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
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"Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East."
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"I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that."
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"I believe in the greatness of our democracy."
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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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"And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California."
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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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"However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone."
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"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy."
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"If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China."
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"In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years."
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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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"Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves."
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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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"For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom."
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"A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit."
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"A full and fair discussion is essential to 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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"Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals."
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"There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy."
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"My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy."
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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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"Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed."
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"The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan."
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"Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race."
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