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• A sailing ship is no democracy; you don’t caucus a crew as to where you’ll go anymore than you inquire when they’d like to shorten sail.

  Sterling Hayden

  Topics in Democracy

• 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

• Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

  Gijs de Vries

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• The majority of the world’s Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

  Gijs de Vries

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Muslims, Terrorism

• 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

• In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

  Chris Patten

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Everybody, Represented

• And one of the frustrating parts, but it’s an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

  George Pataki

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Separation

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

  Charles B Rangel

  Topics in Country, Democracy

  Tags in Integrity, Instrument

• 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

  Topics in Democracy

• There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

  Leon Trotsky

  Topics in Democracy

• Being ‘at the mercy of legislative majorities’ is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

  Robert Bork

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in American

• The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do.

  William David Trimble Baron Trimble

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Republican, Agreement

• Democracy is not about one party dominating.

  Ed Townsend

  Topics in Democracy

• 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

• Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

  William Blum

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Violence, Propaganda

• We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we’re doing it, is teach and learn.

  Stanley Eugene Fish

  Topics in Business, Democracy

• China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Rule, China

• Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

  Judd Gregg

  Topics in Democracy

• Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

  Frank Ernest Field

  Topics in Democracy

• I think we’re at risk with our democracy. I think we’re dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

  Wesley Kanne Clark Sr.

  Topics in Country, Democracy

  Tags in Thinking