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• At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Republican, Representative, House

• Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

  Chuck Hagel

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Freedom, Interest

• I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.

  Samuel P Huntington

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Human

• Democracy’s a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it’s no longer democracy, is it? It’s something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

  Sam Shepard

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Care

• We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

  Sam Brownback

  Topics in Democracy

• Democracy is not about one party dominating.

  Ed Townsend

  Topics in Democracy

• In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Free, Movement

• In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

  Edmund Burke

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Citizens

• I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Topics in Country, Democracy

  Tags in People, Public

• We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Responsibility

• Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues.

  Chris Bell

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Opening

• The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn’t good for democracy.

  Chris Bell

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in American, Self

• In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that’s what I do, even if it displeases.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Oneself, Express

• The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can’t be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who’s is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn’t.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Believe

• We are losing the democracy that we’re trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

   

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Topics in Democracy

• Sometimes it’s better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

  Serj Tankian

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Honest, Sometimes

• I can’t talk about foreign policy like anyone who’s spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it’s very important that I participate in that.

  Ron Silver

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Important

• Our country’s founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

  Ron Paul

  Topics in Country, Democracy

• Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

  Ron Kind

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• I have – I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else – I can assure of that.

  Ron Davies

  Topics in Democracy