Democratic Process Quotes - Page 2

• The proper way to make policy decisions under our Constitution in America is for the people to do so through the democratic process.

  Ted Cruz

  America, People, Decision

  NPR News Interview, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• Introducing a technology is not a neutral act--it is profoundly revolutionary. If you present a new technology to the world you are effectively legislating a change in the way we all live. You are changing society, not some vague democratic process. The individuals who are driven to use that technology by the disparities of wealth and power it creates do not have a real choice in the matter. So the idea that we are giving people more freedom by developing technologies and then simply making them available is a dangerous illusion.

  Karl Schroeder

  Real, Technology, Ideas

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• But we either believe in democracy or we don't. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed. If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Men, Law

  Legislative Assembly Debates, April 27, 1955.

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• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Farewell, Government

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

  Steven Spielberg

  Years, Different, Today

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• There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.

  Pat Robertson

  War, Taken, Views

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• If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

  Abdallah II

  Process, Democratic, Ifs

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• If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Moving, Mean, Games

  "Aung San Suu Kyi: 'This government is not capable of running the economy'". TIME Interview, content.time.com. November 15, 1999.

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• The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

  Jack Kemp

  Growing, Levels, Problem

  "In His Own Words: Jack Kemp And The Issues", www.nytimes.com. August 11, 1996.

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• Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

  Joshua Foer

  Knights, Language, Century

  "Utopian for Beginners" by Joshua Foer, www.newyorker.com. December 24&31, 2012.

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• I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.

  Brandon Boyd

  Play, Effort, Band

  "Incubus front man Brandon Boyd true to his art". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2009.

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• No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.

  Ian Mcewan

  Emergencies, Process, Democratic

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• This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Development, World

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process.

  Tom Ridge

  Moving, Effort, United States

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• What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their preferences. When you hear someone say that he doesn't trust the market, and wants to replace it with government edicts, he's really calling for a switch from a democratic process to a totalitarian one.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, People, Decision

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• Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Sound, Jazz

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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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• The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.

  L. Neil Smith

  Choices, Fundamentals, Weapons

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• Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Country, Pride, People

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• European and American companies companies do create jobs for some people but what they're mainly going to do is make an already wealthy elite wealthier, and increase its greed and strong desire to hang on to power. So immediately and in the long run, these companies - harm the democratic process a great deal.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Running, Strong, Jobs

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• Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rights, Agreement, People

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• I think there is more creative freedom as a solo artist by far because you might get a group push back on an idea because it's more of a democratic process. You can sink or swim on your own ideas on a solo project.

  Myka 9

  Thinking, Artist, Ideas

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• People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors. They may not be old enough to register to vote, but they can urge their teachers, their parents, their grandparents, their mothers, their fathers, and others to get out and vote.

  John Lewis

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Liberty, Weight, Process

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with the comparably slow democratic processes. Many young people - and some old people - want to know, Why does everything take so long? Why can't someone just decide and then move forward?

  Anne Applebaum

  Moving, Long, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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