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• There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Uncomfortable

• Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

  Aaron Brown

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Television, Control, Perfect

• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  Carl Levin

  Topics in Democracy, Mistake

  Tags in Chance

• But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Islamic, Culture

• However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Topics in Democracy

• I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Promotion

• In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Participant

• In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Consensus

• The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Topics in Democracy

• Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Islamic

• The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Topics in Democracy

• 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

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Inheritance

• The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

  C. L. R. James

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Suffrage, Elected

• If our republican form of government is perishing because communications – the infrastructure of that republic – is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.

  Mark Lloyd

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

  Keith Preston

  Topics in Democracy, Uncategorized

  Tags in Equal, Whole

• Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

  Robert Coles

  Topics in Compromise, Confidence, Democracy, Leadership, Politics

  Tags in Government, Integrity/Individuality, Character, Judgment, Conscience, Courage, Choice, Choosing

• Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

  Brad Henry

  Topics in Democracy, Education

  Tags in Educated, Reading, Build

• The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly.

  Norman Thomas

  Topics in America, Democracy

  Tags in Democrats, Ideas, American

• Don’t ever dare to take your college as a matter of course – because, like democracy and freedom, many people you’ll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Topics in College, Democracy, Money

  Tags in Their, Because, Course, Your, Get, Hearts, Ever, Never, Freedom, Take, Broken, Know, Matter, Dare

• Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.

  Madame de Stael

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent

  Tags in Enemies, Difficulties