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“Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.”

Years Ends Country Helping Moving Democracy Century Kings Exile Dynasty

Author:Elliott Abrams

“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”

Wells War Country Literature Politics Democracy Modern Democratic Prepared Cease Tyrants Bureaucracy Obedient Government Bureaucracy Modern War

Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“New Rule: The rest of the world can go back to being completely jealous of America. Our majority white country just freely elected a black president, something no other democracy has ever done. Take that Canada! Where's your nubian warrior president? Your head of state is a boring white dude named Steven Harper, and mine is a kick-ass black ninja named Barack Hussein Obama!”

Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.”

Country Spirit Democracy Capitalism Independent Journalism Excess Nurture Inertia

Author:Bill Moyers

“Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.”

Country Action Democracy Nazi Pacifist Pacifism

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.”

Ifs Men Wells May Said Country Facts America Enemy Democracy Ideals Treats Tragedy Aim Curse Our Society Iron Respectable Vacuums

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad. Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor of maintaining it.”

Country States Home Individual Enjoy Natural Democracy Grace Ready Labor Assuming Heavy Host Fascism Maintaining

Author:Norman Mailer

“It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.”

Men World Important Ideas Country Seems Democracy Sky Equal Men And Women

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.”

Mind Country Matter Whole Born Imagination Chance Democracy Masters Circumstances No Matter What Youngsters Hamper

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.”

Wells Said Country Democracy Products Genius Republican Democrat Superiors Selling

Author:Bill Maher

“Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters and these policemen and people from all over the country, literally with buckets, rebuilding... that's extraordinary. And that's why we have already won... they can't... it's light. It's democracy. They can't shut that down.”

People Country Light Guy Democracy Fool Extraordinary Blow Policemen Buckets Firefighter Rebuilding Already Won

Author:Jon Stewart

“Why is it when we have 10 million people in this country who say 'No', we still have a president who says 'Yes.' In a democracy, something's wrong here.”

People Stills Country President Millions Democracy

Author:Richard Gere

“Some of the reasons why Muslims would look down on America or even countries that have democracy, is because that's what they've been taught all their life. And it's not really their fault if you think about it, it's their government's fault for teaching people that America, them over there across the ocean, they're the devil.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Country Reason Government America Democracy Teaching Taught Ocean Devil Faults Reason Why

Author:Cristian Machado

“To pay attention to the actual core of the movement - that would be pretty hard. Can you concentrate for example on either the policy issues or the creation of functioning democratic communities of mutual support and say, well, that's what's lacking in our country that's why we don't have a functioning democracy - a community of real participation. That's really important. And that always gets smashed.”

“Instead of being a Woodrow Wilson democracy promoter we ought to hunt down our enemies and kill ISIS rather than creating opportunities for ISIS to take control of new countries.”

Country Opportunity Enemy Democracy Ought Creating Hunts Isis Wilson Take Control Creating Opportunities

Author:Ted Cruz

“Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.”

World Kind Country Justice Poor Poverty Democracy Violence Plenty Fundamentalism Poor Countries

Author:Robert Fisk

“Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.”

“After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?”

People Ifs Needs Children Country Grows Half Democracy Planets Intelligent Sensitive Seats Drivers Fragile

Author:Alice Walker

“Rulers like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser started subsidizing bread as a way to buy loyalty, or at least obedience, and this system became so pervasive that the Tunisian scholar Larbi Sadiki described countries who used it as dimuqratiyyat al-khubz - "democracies of bread." But the problem with this system of offering bread in exchange for genuine democracy is that it can never last - sooner or later, the bread will run out, and people will start demanding bread and roses too.”

People Way Country Problem Running Lasts Used Democracy Rose Loyalty Genuine Bread Obedience Als Offering Scholar Rulers Sooner Or Later Egypt

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“I think it's a part of being a citizen in a country, to know what is going on and to have a say in how they want their country being run. You know, that's a part of the privilege of democracy.”

Thinking Knows Want Country Running Democracy Citizens Privilege

Author:Bridgit Mendler

“There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in my view, it is undermining American democracy and it is allowing Congress to represent wealthy campaign contributors and not the working families of this country.”

People Country Reason Political Views Democracy Streets Huge Wall Amount Congress Campaigns Reason Why Wealthy Allowing Political Systems Undermining Contributors American Democracy

Author:Bernie Sanders

“What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.”

“There are a lot of great organizations who are fighting for food and environmental safety in this country. The Environmental Working Group, Just Label It, Food Democracy Now, and the Center for Food Safety, to name a few.”

Country Fighting Names Democracy Groups Organization Safety Environmental Labels Food Safety Great Organizations

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“We need some rules changes. This is an outrage that this, the oldest democracy has now, you know, ranked - when I say ranked 59th, it means that in the percentage of women, in our national parliament, our National Congress, is now ranks 59th from the top. That means 58 countries have more women than we do in percentage wise.”

Knows Needs Mean Country Democracy Wise Congress Parliament Percentages Outrage Democracies Have

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.”

Has Beens Country Political Interest Democracy Currents Corporate Usa Other Countries Political Systems Democracies Have

Author:Neil Young

“When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning point, about ten years ago, was moving from a notion of empowering women to actually looking at where you can make the most difference, and it's in a girl's life.”

Years Stills Country Bigs Moving Girl Left Differences Democracy Wall Ten Years Ago Notion Empowering Empowering Women Berlin Turning Points Left Out Berlin Wall

Author:Kathy Calvin

“There is no "ruler" in our country. Poland is a democracy. Our Prime Minister leads the government; the President is fulfilling his tasks. But there is a little bit left for the party leader.”

Littles Country Government Left Bits President Party Leader Democracy Little Bit Tasks Our Country Ministers Prime Rulers Fulfilling Prime Minister Poland

Author:Jaroslaw Kaczynski

“It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in Eastern European countries as well as in countries like South Korea, South Africa, Chile and Indonesia. However, if possible, the use of force is something to avoid except in cases where genocide is threatened, like Bosnia or Libya or with regimes that threaten our security, like the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.”

“Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic.”

Looks Country States Reason United United States Democracy Presidential Organized Japan Republic European Countries Parliamentary Parliamentary Democracy

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.”

“But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.”

People Country Matter Voice Simple Leader Democracy Policy Determine Communist Drag Dictatorship Parliament Fascists Bidding

Author:Hermann Goring

“I am thankful for our democracy, liberty, and prosperity, and that so many Americans have dedicated their lives to improving our country and our world.”

World Country Liberty Democracy Prosperity Our Country Our World Dedicated Improving I Am Thankful

Author:Alcee Hastings

“Nowhere else you will find a country of India's diversity, of India's complexity, one billion people trying to seek their social and economic salvation in the framework of democracy, in the framework of an open economy.”

People Trying Country Social Economy Democracy Economic Diversity India Salvation Billions Complexity Framework

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Iraq is not only fighting to defend itself, but also to defend all countries of the world, especially as these foreign fighters that are fighting for Daesh, they come from more than 100 countries. So, very humbly, we say that we are defending ourselves and all countries of the civilized world, and we are defending democracy.”

World Country Fighting Democracy Iraq Fighter Civilized Countries Of The World

Author:Ibrahim al-Jaafari

“You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.”

Country Helping Democracy Military Deny Regimes Defeated Pakistan

Author:Indira Gandhi

“You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.”

Said Country Together Democracy Plans Errors Committed Planning Communist

Author:Indira Gandhi

“There are people working their butts off trying to save our republic and save democracy from the likes of powerful people in the Democrat Party who want to take this country and turn it into a personal little playground for their own private gain.”

People Want Trying Littles Country Turns Powerful Party Democracy Gains Democrat Likes Republic Playgrounds

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“That is, I think that what I do, that democracy in Venezuela hasn't really worked well since the [Ugo] Chávez era and that it has gotten even worse since the last elections, in which the Maduro government lost control of the House, of the country's legislature.”

Thinking Wells Country Government Lasts House Lost Democracy Election Eras Legislature Venezuela

Author:Marco Rubio

“It's hard in all countries. Democracy is hard, but it's better than the alternatives.”

Country Hard Democracy Alternatives

Author:Jamie Dimon

“I do think that our democracy is so great, we can withstand even a candidacy of Donald Trump. And when we emerge from this, it has to be respecting the position of those who supported him, addressing the anger and anxiety that they have, and, again, bringing the country together, which was always the purpose of our founders, a more perfect union.”

Thinking Country Together Purpose Perfect Democracy Position Trump Anxiety Unions Founders Candidacy

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“There is no doubt our democracy can be very messy and America does remain a sharply divided country.”

Doe Country America Democracy Doubt No Doubt Divided Messy Divided Country

Author:Paul Ryan

“I think it's a big disservice to our country and to our democracy to continue to raise these doubts.”

Thinking Country Bigs Democracy Doubt Raises Our Country Disservice

Author:Audie Cornish

“[Fall of the Berlin Wall] is a reminder that the commitment of the United States, to Europe is enduring and it's rooted in the values we share; our commitment to democracy, our commitment to rule of law, our commitment to the dignity of all people in our own countries and around the world.”

People World Country States Law Values Fall United United States Democracy Share Wall Commitment Europe Dignity Endure Around The World Rooted Reminders Berlin Rule Of Law Berlin Wall

Author:Barack Obama

“The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability of other countries to determine their own destiny and preserve their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Things are not something that we can set aside.”

Country Law Values Ability Destiny Democracy Integrity Speech International Determine Preserves Free Speech Other Countries Sovereignty Norm Rule Of Law Territorial

Author:Barack Obama

“The Arab spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence and everybody else wants it. How about us, when do we get it, when do we make our move? And you have a situation where someone has been in power for decades, where the integrity of elections, democracy and security have really not been debated or discussed and most people suspect that elections are rigged and that the democratic rotation that elections are supposed to ensure doesn't really happen. And when this goes on for a while you are sitting on a powder keg.”

“The fact is that you literally, by definition, cannot have a Jewish state and a democratic state and have a whole bunch of Palestinians in it who are living under military rule while the rest of the country is living under civil rule, and they have different rights and different - it's just not a democracy.”

Different Country States Whole Facts Democracy Rights Military Democratic Definitions Bunch Palestinian

Author:John F. Kerry

“Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.”

Should Said Country Hard Bigs America Easy Democracy Supposed To Be

Author:Barack Obama

“In general the 53 countries on the continent of Africa have made great progress towards freedom and democracy, and in terms of electing good, sound administrations.”

Made Country Sound Term Democracy Progress Administration Continents Great Progress

Author:Jimmy Carter

“When considering the Islamic world, Turkey is the best example of a country where democracy irreversibly gained a foothold despite religious and cultural traditions still respected today. With some reservation, this can be said about Pakistan, too, where we can observe dynamic political processes going on [and] governments change as a result of elections. In my opinion, it is up to the ruling elite to initiate cardinal changes.”

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