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Democracy Quotes
"I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined."
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"Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature."
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"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."
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"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed."
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"We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad."
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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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"Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows."
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"Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship."
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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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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
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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 Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism."
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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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"Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms."
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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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"Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to."
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"The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about."
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"Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns."
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"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements."
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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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"And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility."
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"I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats."
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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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"As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh."
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"Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China."
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"We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats."
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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 lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats."
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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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"Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers."
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"Television is democracy at its ugliest."
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"For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better."
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"In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks."
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"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy."
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"In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press."
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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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"Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy."
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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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"Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry."
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"Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections."
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