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Democracy Quotes

Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.

Richard N. Haass

Government Democracy Question Able

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Freedom Democracy Judges Necessary

I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Democracy American Out Stay Chain

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

Democracy Obstacles Russia Hold Left

In democracy - and the good thing about democracy, big change does not happen quickly, and you need a buy-in and a convincing, a selling, an arm-twisting to get big change. And that takes time.

Change Good Time Democracy You Need

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Fear Democracy Meaning Down Stop

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

Hope Freedom Democracy Search Our

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.

Michelle Bachelet

Growth Justice Democracy Poverty Go

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

Power War Democracy World Fighting

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Alone Democracy Existence Elections

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Freedom Democracy Right Point Like

The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

People Democracy World Free Deep

It's important and good to email the Federal Communications Commission, and it's important and good to educate your friends via social media about what's happening. But in a representative democracy, the way to get policy changes is through elections.

Good Social Media Democracy Media

Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process.

Life Happiness Man People Democracy

If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

Democracy You Find Now Grey Land

The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

Family Democracy Learn Doing Go

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

Democracy Political Others Unions

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Democracy Political Help Will Us

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

Democracy Control You Perfect Vote

I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.

Money Democracy Influence Think Ours

Israel is the only democracy in this part of the world.

Democracy World Israel Only Part

Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy.

George M. Whitesides

Good Freedom Science Best Democracy

As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

Leader War Democracy Country Flag

Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.

Heart Democracy Tyranny Unique More

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