“I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Today, we are one of the most solid democracies, where institutions are working, where the scandals such as false positives have come to light because of those functioning institutions.” CountryStatesLightTodayRememberPresidentDemocracyPlansBecomingInstitutionsClintonScandalVergeColombiaPresident Clinton Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.” PhilosophyPoliticalDemocracyPlansFieldsEconomicsEssenceMechanismEngineeringPolitical PhilosophyReservoirs Author:Benjamin Graham
“In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.” YearsHomeDiesPovertyDemocracyViolencePlansAfghanistanTroopsReconstruction Author:Jesse Jackson
“Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.” DemocracyPlansDestructionConstitutionLabourBlueprints Author:John Redwood
“People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without what sociologists call "secondary organizations," places where people can get together, plan, talk and develop ideas. You don't do it alone.” PeopleIdeasTogetherDemocracyPlansTelevisionInternetOrganizationGet TogetherSociologists Author:Noam Chomsky
“The president had a press conference about this this week and he said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea. And then he added, 'Like having no plan ever stopped me before.'. He has something even more deadly in store for them - we're going to bring them democracy.” SaidPresidentDemocracyPlansWeekPressesStoresConferencesKoreaNorth KoreaPress Conferences Author:Bill Maher
“Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.” PeopleNeedsDifferentPoliticalUsedGamesSocialPartyDemocracyPlansViolentConfusionTraditionalUsed To BeRevolutionaryAlsCategoriesEgyptianClassificationNon ViolentTerminologyPolitical Games Author:Tariq Ramadan
“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.” SaidCountryTogetherDemocracyPlansErrorsCommittedPlanningCommunist Author:Indira Gandhi
“Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.” PeopleDifferentPoliticalUsedGamesSocialPartyDemocracyPlansViolentTraditionalUsed To BeRevolutionaryAlsCategoriesEgyptianClassificationNon ViolentPolitical Games Author:Tariq Ramadan