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Democracy Quotes
"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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"Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism."
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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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"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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"Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy."
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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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"You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!"
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"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."
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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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"Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns."
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"A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency."
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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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"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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"For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better."
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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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"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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"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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"Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms."
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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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"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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"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy."
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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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"Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves."
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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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"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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"Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats."
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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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"Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race."
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"Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known."
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"In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism."
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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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"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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"We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats."
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"In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders."
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"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."
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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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"Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers."
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