“Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy is not necessarily that we agree, but that we participate....Despite all the heavy problems- domestic and international- there is humor. Humor transcends partisanship.” HelpingProblemHumorDemocracyKeysAgreeInternationalHeavyDespiteDisagreeDisagreeablePartisanship Author:Gerald R. Ford
“We need the value and the beauty of democracy, and the beauty of pluralism is there's a free exchange of ideas. Nobody is right all the time. I'm not right all the time. I don't agree with anybody all the time, and I don't even agree with myself all the time.” NeedsIdeasValuesDemocracyAgreePluralismPluralism Is Author:Rick Warren
“As far as domestic democracy, all here present know that democracy means government of the people by the people. While we agree that consultation and participation are essential to every democracy, this is seldom achieved in practice.” PeopleKnowsMeanGovernmentPracticeDemocracyEssentialsAgreeParticipationConsultation Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important thing in a democracy is that it doesn't necessarily have to agree with what America's interests are, and it doesn't necessarily have to be serving American interests.” PeopleImportantAmericaFormInterestDemocracyTakenAgreeImportant ThingsServingJustificationImperialismDemocracies HaveAdvocating Author:George Soros
“I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe what they believe and I believe they're being honest with me about it.” BelieveI CanRealI BelieveDealsDemocracyHonestAgreeBeing Honest Author:Steve Earle
“If democracy is destroyed in Britain, it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away. The rights that are entrusted to us are not for us to give away. Even if I agree with everything that is proposed, I cannot hand away powers lent to me for five years by the people of Chesterfield. I just could not do it. It would be theft of public rights.” PeopleIfsGivingYearsHandsWould BeHouseDemocracyFiveRightsAgreeDestroyedFive YearsBritainCommunistTheft Author:Tony Benn
“There are those who argue that the concept of human rights is not applicable to all cultures. We in the National League for Democracy believe that human rights are of universal relevance. But even those who do not believe in human rights must certainly agree that the rule of law is most important. Without the rule of law there can be no peace.” BelieveHumansImportantLawCultureDemocracyRightsConceptsUniversalAgreeHuman RightsArguingLeagueRelevanceRule Of Law Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for the war, namely the belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or that there was some obligation that the United States or the president had to expand democracy.” MadeWarStatesReasonBeliefPresidentUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyClearWeaponsMassDestructionAgreeIraqObligationMade ItFormerPresident BushWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionGerald Ford Author:Bob Woodward
“So when the wolf pounces on your lamb, just ignore the pitiful bleating and remind yourself that this is a democracy, where every sheep can freely express its preference for which kind of wolf it wants to be eaten by. Many sheep, perhaps understandably, prefer a wolf in sheep's clothing, which is after all the basic idea of democracy. So far it has worked pretty well. The wolves all agree on that, and they want to spread democracy everywhere.” WantWellsKindIdeasDemocracyAgreeSpreadClothingsSheepPreferenceLambsPitifulWolves In Sheep's Clothing Author:Joseph Sobran
“As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some of these third parties listeners, they've got to show up.” PeopleShowsPartyHalfDemocracyThirdsAgreeAgendasListenersShowing UpThird Parties Author:Ralph Nader
“Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.” IdeasBeliefDemocracyProveAgreePressesCommunistCubaFree Press Author:Fidel Castro
“I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.” ThinkingKnowsWarEnoughGovernmentNumbersDemocracyClearFocusRightsSecurityBuildingCostRacismAgreeFinancialDrawingAdministrationNot SureDisagreeApprovalIsraeliTalibanDeclaringInsistingProtocolConstitutional RightsDeclaring War Author:Judith Butler