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[C]apitalism--democracy's sidekick — Laura Kelly

He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself. — William S. Paley

But democracy is alive and well, as long as there's an open bar. — Megan McCafferty

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope. — Hillary Clinton

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia. — Juan Manuel Santos

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties. — Hillary Clinton

The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy. — Auliq Ice

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change. — Andrew Vachss

Having two non-functional parties is not a democracy, it's a losing coin flip. — Russ Lippitt

I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator. — Winston S. Churchill

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works. — Lyndon B. Johnson

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism. — Herbert Croly

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases. — Brigitte Bardot

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear. — Brian Eno

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world. — John Doolittle

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy. — Joe Green

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us. — Bill Moyers

Hamilton's besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism. — Ron Chernow

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. — Winston S. Churchill

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom. — Pearl S. Buck

How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy. — Christopher Isherwood

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it. — John Fund

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth. — Hunter S. Thompson

Whether it's 'Veep' or 'Homeland' or 'The West Wing' - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics. — Kevin Spacey

The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure. — Elliott Abrams

Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do. — Doris "Granny D" Haddock

Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam. — Lauren Beukes

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy. — Hugo Chavez

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. — S.I. Hayakawa

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy. — John Redwood

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. — Noam Chomsky

Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations. — Ezra Pound

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. — Sydney J. Harris

Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism — Ronald Reagan

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy. — Molly Haskell

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs. — Victor Ponta

This election result has increased people's faith in democracy. — Narendra Modi

My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man ... not to democracy, or blood; it's to a King & a Kingdom — Derek Webb

That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. — George Orwell

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's? — John Wyndham

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. — Tom Stoppard

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election. — H.G.Wells

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny. — Mike Pence

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve. — Rick Mercer

It's great that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. I can't wait to see how we do it! What are we gonna do, give them our civics textbooks? — Lewis Black

Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted. — Lena Horne

I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old. — Mimsy Sadofsky

Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take. — Charles Kennedy

It's important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned. — Auliq Ice

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers. — George Pataki

Democracy has become Empire's euphemism for neo-liberal capitalism. — Arundhati Roy

People will never get in touch with democracy. It's always surrounded by bodyguards. — Ljupka Cvetanova

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it's a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor. — Andy Warhol

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community. — Bode Miller

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. — Winston S. Churchill

The "democratization of education" is everyone's fight, everyone's right. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries. — David McCullough

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world. — Noam Chomsky

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. — William Bennett

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy. — Ron Paul

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling. — Nigel Farage

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. — Robert A. Heinlein

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with ... — Shirley Hazzard

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. — Ronald Reagan

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. — Winston S. Churchill

The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue. — Herbert Hoover

Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering. — Rhidian Brook

Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy, — Sharan Burrow

It is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
people. — Winston S. Churchill

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work. — Phil Donahue

Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think the Egyptian people need to restore confidence that Americans, the U.S., means what they say when they talk about democracy, rule of law. — Mohamed ElBaradei

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price. — John Le Carre

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone. — Milos Forman

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman. — Winston Churchill

Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents. — Robert A. Heinlein

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances. — George H. W. Bush

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest. — Serj Tankian

So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out. — Nirmala Srivastava

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. — Sarah Palin

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy. — Eve Curie

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy. — David Harsanyi

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes. — Hunter S. Thompson

We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals. — Lonnie Bunch

It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy ... — Naomi Mitchison

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead. — David S. Broder

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen. — J.S.B. Morse

Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production. — David Cunliffe

Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy. — Paul Provenza

Rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it. — Lester Bangs

The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy. — Jason Katims

Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society. — Fran Lebowitz

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. — Timothy Garton Ash

As S. S. McClure well understood, the "vitality of democracy" depends on "popular knowledge of complex questions." At — Doris Kearns Goodwin

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets. — Helen Clark