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• In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

  Catherine Ashton

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Rights, Kind

• A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation’s paradise and its tomb.

  Emil Cioran

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Nation, Paradise

• Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

  Emile Lahoud

  Topics in Country, Democracy

  Tags in Modernity

• Here’s to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

  Rick Mercer

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it’s always been my position that we shouldn’t complain about that; that’s the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

  Rick Mercer

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Living

• We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

  Topics in Democracy, Fear

  Tags in Terrorists

• 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

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom, Through

• But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Trying, Islam

• We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Islam, Ideas

• 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.

  Richard Parks Bland

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Right, American

• 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

  Topics in Democracy, Experience

  Tags in Personal

• Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

  Eric Alterman

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in People

• I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  Topics in Democracy, God

  Tags in Students

• You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom, Measure

• So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Topics in America, Democracy

  Tags in Need

• We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

  Aaron McGruder

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Worthless

• I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

  Richard Attenborough

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Believe

• We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.

  Ricardo Lagos

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Understand

• The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

  Ernest Istook

  Topics in Democracy, Positive

  Tags in Iraq

• Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

  Ernest Mandel

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Socialist