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Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
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.
Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized.
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.
Democracy is about institutions: it's about having things like schools and judiciary and the Ford Foundation, or 'The Nation' magazine - you need progressive institutions, you know what I mean? Those are important institutions to make sure that the government functions.
I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.
The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.
Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.
Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.
Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places.
I definitely think America should seek to lead and shape the world and make it safe for liberal democracy. I just don't think military intervention is going to get us there.
The challenge for America is: can we become a multicultural, multiracial democracy? It would be historic. It would be America's greatest contribution to human civilization.
I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world.
The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy - they see themselves as fighting for the survival of civilization, after all.
In a democracy, if a government creates bad policies, it can be voted out of office. Competition in the private sector, however, can easily work to encourage phishing rather than stifle it.
Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!
We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
Having a representative democracy requires the confidence of the voters in the system. And if voters lose confidence in the system they can make some very bad decisions.
The American experiment with representative democracy has been a great success, but we need to realize that it needs to be a genuine representative democracy where ordinary people have a vote, have a voice in choosing the candidates who represent them.
Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.
Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.
Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.
Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse. Promoting democracy must be undertaken with humility, care, and wisdom.
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
We believe - most polls indicate - a lack of support, a lack of confidence in the ability of the Congress to work. That is disturbing in terms of our general democracy.
We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.
It is hard to know exactly when the Arab Spring, a phrase used to describe the beginning of the Arab peoples' demand for democracy and human-rights reform, started.
While American interests in the Middle East must obviously be protected, America's credibility to support democracy for everyone everywhere is crucial.
If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?
The inability or unwillingness of citizens to differentiate between fake and authentic news is undermining a fundamental assumption of democracy: the informed voter.
I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.
There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.
I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.
I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.
We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.
There is a crisis on the Right. It sees the Jewish and democratic state as a democracy for the Jews. This is something I cannot countenance.
I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy.
The idea that the State of Israel could be democracy only for its Jewish citizens is unconscionable, and we must find a way to address this.
Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.
Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of a position different to my own.
There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don't respect the law and the judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed, but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our democracy.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.
But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.
Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.
The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.
The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed.
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.
In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.
Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.
There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.
The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?
It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.
The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.
I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.
I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.
There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.
I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
You have to ask the people about democracy. I know what my people want, and I cannot understand these people who violate peace.
People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.
My election to the position of president is the symbol of the greatness of Indian democracy.
Debate and discussions strengthen democracy but violence during protests weaken democracy.
In a democracy, nothing is more sacred than the mandate given by the people.
Our Constitution gave us rights as citizens of a free democratic nation, but also placed on us the responsibility to always adhere to the central tenets of our democracy - justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Ours is a party with internal democracy. When we take a collective decision, it is not taken by a few people. It is taken only after serious analysis and wide consultations, in a true and democratic manner.
All have the right to speak, do whatever they want in democracy, but no one will be allowed to destabilise the country or create violence.
President or Prime Minister are not any individuals. They are an institutions in itself, and in democracy, we should ensure that the dignity of the institutions is not lowered.
Appeal for votes should not be made on basis of caste, creed, or communal. In a healthy democracy, this is not expected from any political leader.
As a matter of principle, we are opposed to destabilising a stable government, and I believe in the norms of healthy democracy.
In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.
It is time to investigate Russian interference in our democracy and to address it in a manner that will help restore Americans' trust in their government.
There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.
Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world.
Our aid budget has a crucial role to play in shaping the world according to our universal values of democracy, enterprise and justice.
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