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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
Dalton Trumbo
God
Democracy
Vote
People
Wish
Doctors
Jews
Way
Worship
Say
Feel
Voodoo
Well
Any
Want
Means
Right
Christians
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
Dan Rather
Freedom
Democracy
Heart
Independence
Free
Press
Independent
Beating
Red
Truly
Fiercely
Necessary
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
Eduardo Galeano
Democracy
Military
Name
Most
Coup
Done
Against
Wars
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
Edward Albee
Time
Democracy
Remember
One Thing
Exactly
Exactly What
About
Always
End
Up
Same
Same Time
Want
Anything
Deserve
Thing
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Politics
Government
Freedom
Democracy
Man
Free
Rich
Else
Enslave
Machine
System
Only
Individual
Individual Freedom
Like
Make
Call
Him
America
Expedient
Just
Poor
Means
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal
Politics
Great
Democracy
Numerous
Cost
Without
Issues
Candidates
Where
Interchangeable
Place
Held
Elections
Apparently
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.
Hugo Chavez
Democracy
Socialism
World
Dictatorship
Save The World
Way
Only
Through
Within
Exists
Here
Save
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright
Politics
Faith
Democracy
Dissent
Act
I like the noise of democracy.
James Buchanan
Democracy
Noise
Like
America is best when we come together with clear leadership, expertise, and the political will to take on difficult challenges and get things done. No one should ever doubt the strength and resilience of our country and our democracy.
Jamie Dimon
Best
Leadership
Strength
Democracy
Together
Challenges
Political
Will
Country
Doubt
Difficult
Our
Take
No-One
Clear
Come
America
Get
Done
Expertise
Should
Ever
Things
Resilience
We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
Jimmy Carter
Freedom
Democracy
Christian
Christianity
Earth
India
Primarily
Indonesia
Islamic
Because
Equate
Hindu
Dependent
Which
Beliefs
Largest
Third
Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.
John Hickenlooper
Democracy
Own
Community
Benefit
Solely
Recognition
Some
Empathy
Without
Self-Interest
Narrow
Regard
Decisions
Based
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Malcolm Forbes
Politics
Democracy
Business
Few
Tolerance
Neither
Takes
Democratic
Democratic Process
Understand
Being
Process
Capable
Depth
Businessmen
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
Paul Wellstone
Democracy
Power
Imbalance
Our
Threat
Between
Masses
Principal
Infected
American
Polity
Which
Serious
Elites
Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics. It is partly a religion, but it is much more than that. It has a political agenda that goes far outside the realm of religion.
Pauline Hanson
Politics
Freedom
Religion
Democracy
Political
Freedom Of Speech
Islam
Believe
Press
More
Outside
Partly
Does
Political Agenda
Than
Goes
Agenda
Far
Much
Realm
Separate
Assembly
Speech
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Peter Ustinov
Faith
Nature
Democracy
Corruption
Our
Way
Restoring
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
Ralph Nader
Daily
Democracy
Citizenship
Without
People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
Saul Alinsky
Good
Freedom
Democracy
People
Free
Sacrifice
Others
Unless
Willing
Some
Ongoing
Price
Pursuit
Common
Common Good
Cannot
Interests
Guarantee
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
Government
Democracy
Ought
System
Only
Powers
Persists
Whether
Asking
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
Vladimir Putin
Democracy
Rights
Will
Nothing
Human Rights
Ensuring
Russia
Road
Nobody
Freedoms
Human
Stop
Strengthening
For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
Vladimir Putin
Democracy
Political
Russia
Russian
Outside
Another
However
Imposed
Option
May
Realization
Us
Standards
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, 'You're either with us or against us.'
Vladimir Putin
Democracy
You
Together
World
Increasingly
Solely
Slogan
See
Relying
Brute
Brute Force
Force
Around
Model
America
Either
Against
Us
Coalition
Millions
Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
Barack Obama
Life
Democracy
Matter
Rich
Down
Our
Extreme
Favor
System
Some
Only
Voice
Voices
Attention
Powerful
Feels
Most
Narrow
Person
Get
Interest
Breaks
Public
Average
Average Person
Public Life
Rigged
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Alexander Woollcott
Work
Government
Tired
Democracy
Supposed
Course
Said
Hearing
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Truth
Democracy
Speak
Power
Our
Designed
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
Alice Paul
Democracy
You
Vote
Women
Tell
Denied
Women Are
America
Twenty
Right
Million
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