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Democracy Quotes
"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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"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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"You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!"
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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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"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."
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"We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction."
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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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"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
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"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections."
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"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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"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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"The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry."
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"For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better."
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"When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans."
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"Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry."
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"Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism."
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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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"Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy."
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"We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats."
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"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."
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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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"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."
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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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"Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves."
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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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"Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns."
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"Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used."
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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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"We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad."
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"I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me."
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"The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here."
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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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"Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate."
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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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"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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"In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders."
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"No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy."
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"Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific."
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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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