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Here are the quotes with the word democracy in them. 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 One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country. — Aung San Suu Kyi However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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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

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One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

-Aung San Suu Kyi

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

-Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

-H.L.Mencken

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

-Walt Whitman

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

-Winston Churchill

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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

-Aristotle

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The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

-Niels Bohr

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In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

-Carter G. Woodson

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Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

-Rick Perry

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The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

-Joe Barton

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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

-Malcolm Forbes

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Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

-Dalton Trumbo

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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

-Dan Quayle

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The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

-Aung San Suu Kyi

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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

-Gael Garcia Bernal

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You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.

-Shimon Peres

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Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

-Michael D. Higgins

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I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

-Paul Bremer

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

-Mark Pryor

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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

-Robert M. Hutchins

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I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

-Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

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The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.

-Jaron Lanier

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Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

-Aung San Suu Kyi

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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
One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country. — Aung San Suu Kyi
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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