Democracy Quotes - Page 34

• I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Moving, People, Historical

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• We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Historical

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Historical, Helping

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Lying, Essence, Practice

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• Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Historical, Principles, Matter

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• The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

  Aristotle

  Numbers, Political, Oligarchy

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• A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Government, Political

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• I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.

  Walt Whitman

  Real, Sleep, Historical

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.393, NYU Press

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• I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

  Abdallah II

  Thinking, Class, People

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• People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on the way we feel and act, and on our health and intelligence. These places have an impact on our sense of self, our sense of safety, the kind of work we get done, the ways we interact with other people, even our ability to function as citizens in a democracy. In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.

  Tony Hiss

  Journey, Impact, Self

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• We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.

  Carl Icahn

  Real, Roots, America

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• Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people - of its citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Years, People

  "President and President Putin Discuss Strong U.S.-Russian Partnership". Statement in press release, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 24, 2005.

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• The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.

  Joost Meerloo

  Freedom, Confusing, Mind

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• I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Majesty, Reap, Successors

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• Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship.

  Joseph Estrada

  Threat, Dictatorship, Ballots

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• Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Blood, Pieces, Flesh

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• The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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• We know that Obama wasn't vetted through the campaign, and now, you know, some things are coming home to roost, if you will, which is inexperience, his associations, and that ultimately harms our republic when a candidate isn't-isn't vetted by the media, that cornerstone of our democracy.

  Sarah Palin

  Home, Media, Campaigns

  "Today's Power Play: Bloomberg Bid Would Help Obama" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. November 17, 2010.

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• We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Iraq, United States

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• I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy. We cannot just keep quiet because that is what happened during martial law. Our dictator then believed that he can do anything to keep himself in power.

  Corazon Aquino

  Believe, Law, Quiet

  "State of Emergency Issued in Philippines Amid Coup Rumors", www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2006.

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• I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy.

  Corazon Aquino

  Believe, Forget, Should

  "State of Emergency Issued in Philippines Amid Coup Rumors", www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2006.

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• I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.

  Corazon Aquino

  Icons

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• I would like to ask the many Filipino people to pray together, to help each other so that we will be able to preserve the democracy we restored 20 years ago.

  Corazon Aquino

  Years, People, Together

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  People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

  Vladimir Putin

  Teaching, People, Want

  "Putin Says West Forcing Will On World", www.rferl.org. February 10, 2007.

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• 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

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Middle East, Achieve, Mass

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