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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.
Rajnath Singh
Democracy
Dignity
President
Ensure
Minister
Individuals
Prime
Prime Minister
Institutions
Itself
Any
Should
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.
Rajnath Singh
Democracy
Political
Made
Leader
Healthy
Caste
Votes
Political Leader
Expected
Any
Communal
Should
Appeal
Creed
Basis
As a matter of principle, we are opposed to destabilising a stable government, and I believe in the norms of healthy democracy.
Rajnath Singh
Government
Democracy
Matter
Healthy
Believe
Principle
Opposed
Norms
Stable
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Ralph Adams Cram
Education
Democracy
History
Science
Wealth
Christianity
Vain
Preserved
Thousand
Thousand Years
Years
Cumulative
Repetition
Us
Inheritance
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Ralph Nader
Democracy
You
Vote
Our
Once
Moral
Ideals
Undermining
Affects
Your
Serious
Basis
You have to ask the people about democracy. I know what my people want, and I cannot understand these people who violate peace.
Ramzan Kadyrov
Democracy
You
Peace
People
About
Know
Understand
Want
Cannot
Ask
Who
Violate
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.
Randi Weingarten
Me
Democracy
Rights
Year
Live
Lesson
Society
Our
Rules
Ensure
Locke
Collectively
John
Some
About
John Locke
Give
Classroom
Individual
Individual Rights
Studies
Prosper
How
Contract
Up
Just
Loved
Social
Social Contract
Teach
Teaching
Helped
Each
Each Year
Right
Starting
There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Democracy
People
Internet
Think
Pluralism
Existing
Lot
Going
Just
Information
China
Bring
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.
Rebecca Solnit
Democracy
Own
Strangers
Able
Rather
Powerful
Comfortable
Exercise
Around
Becoming
Familiar
Walking
Than
Begins
Body
Pawn
Your
Expressive
Streets
Imagine
We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Democracy
Respect
Rights
Human Rights
Call
Human
Turkey
Europe
Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.
Reid Hoffman
Democracy
Big
Group
Believe
Valley
Collaborative
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Something
Small
Individual
Small Group
Tends
Does
Committee
Process
Creates
Who
Consensus
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.
Reuven Rivlin
Democracy
Jews
State
Crisis
Something
Sees
Countenance
Democratic
Democratic State
Cannot
Right
Jewish
I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy.
Reuven Rivlin
Democracy
Strict
Members
About
Maintaining
Principles
Very
Ask
Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.
Reuven Rivlin
Democracy
State
Danger
Democratic
Alternative
Democratic State
Without
Undoubtedly
Itself
I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.
Ricardo Alarcon
Future
Democracy
Capitalism
Think
Because
Opposite
Camps
Belongs
We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.
Ricardo Lagos
Democracy
Must
Able
Freely
Institutions
Understand
Sovereignty
Function
Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
Democracy
Country
Way
Only
Civilized
Govern
I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.
Richard Armitage
Democracy
People
Matter
Think
States
All People
General
Development
Clearly
Supports
Democratic
Globally
Yearnings
United
United States
I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.
Richard Attenborough
Democracy
Believe
Democratic
Trade
Unionism
It is not impossible to succeed as a social democracy, where business and free enterprise thrive, and not abandon the disenfranchised, poor, sick, and elderly.
Richard Belzer
Democracy
Business
Impossible
Free
Thrive
Sick
Abandon
Enterprise
Free Enterprise
Disenfranchised
Where
Social
Succeed
Poor
Elderly
Social Democracy
When you look at - when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they're not satisfied with the way things are going. Sure, this idea of democracy was injected into the region, but it has brought mostly chaos.
Richard Engel
Democracy
You
People
Satisfied
Chaos
Way
East
Brought
Idea
Look
Talk
Mostly
Sure
Going
Africa
Middle
Middle East
Region
Across
Things
I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
Richard Lugar
Hope
Democracy
People
World
Law
Opportunity
Values
Responsibility
Free
Moral Responsibility
Rule
Rule Of Law
Enterprise
Moral
Free Enterprise
Concepts
Majority
Understand
Am
American
American People
Convinced
Foster
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.
Richard Lugar
Time
Democracy
Experience
People
Fate
Despite
Collapse
System
Russia
Russian
Russian People
More
Freedoms
Since
Perhaps
Ambiguous
Than
Personal
Any
Elections
Communist
Now
Democracy requires an informed citizenry able to question its government.
Richard N. Haass
Government
Democracy
Citizenry
Able
Question
Informed
Requires
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.
Richard Painter
Democracy
Confidence
Lose
System
Bad
Some
Having
Voters
Make
Very
Representative
Decisions
Requires
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.
Richard Shelby
Freedom
Democracy
Obligation
Our
Ensure
We Cannot
Run
Follow
Follow Through
About
Through
Iraq
Stability
Essential
Cannot
Cut
Bring
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