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“The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.”

Believe Long Facts Government Running Moving Law Certain Decision Party Democracy Taken Advantage India Committed Chinese Long Runs Rule Of Law

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Having women in office is vital to the health of our democracy because women play a unique role in our society. By and large, women are still the primary caregivers in families, even as we have taken our place in the workforce.”

Stills Play Roles Democracy Taken Office Unique Primaries Our Society Workforce Caregivers

Author:Ellen Malcolm

“As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.”

Giving Wells Whole Certain Turns Democracy Taken Acceptance Comfort Fortune Obvious Curious Well Being Sanctions

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).”

Source: Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered

“But, clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do with, you know, arms belonging to the state, not to -- not in private hands. The current circumstances come out of what I think is a very important and indeed appropriate action that the Iraqi government has taken.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.”

Ifs World Democracy Taken Granted Peculiar Taken For Granted

Author:Jose Saramago

“You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.”

People Ends Country Political Results Democracy Taken Economic Movement Radical Broads Vicious Handful Political Systems Economic Systems

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.”

Ifs Should Self Problem Would Be Values Energy Democracy Taken Failing Discipline Leaving Substance Lacking Self Discipline Commonwealth Personal Problems

Author:Margery Wilson

“The UPA government is non-serious, it has taken the people for granted & it is not bothered about the youth. Their approach shows lack of faith in democracy. Our goal is to win the trust of the people & give dignity to them.”

People Giving Shows Government Politics Winning Goal Democracy Taken Youth Serious Approach Dignity India Granted Bothered Lack Of Faith Not Bothered

Author:Narendra Modi

“America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America have a very similar history. It's different timelines, but the directions we've taken and the consequences - dealing with the aftermath of what we consider to be democracy, and realizing that freedom is just the beginning of the conversation, that's something I've learned.”

“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.”

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Author:George Soros

“It is an incredibly hopeful experience watching communities come together and actually reassemble democracy. The democracy's been taken away from us. But they're reinventing democracy out there in rural Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, in Pittsburgh.”

Together Community Democracy Taken Hopeful Philadelphia Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Reinventing

Author:Josh Fox

“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”

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Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.”

Ifs Want Two Ability Party Leader Democracy Taken Citizens Offers Illusion Significant Concealed Citizenry

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“Today, when we live in a what is called Western democracy here... you're not taken seriously all the time. You can write what you want because nobody cares about it. But at that time, they cared very much about what you wrote, so that's an entirely different feeling.”

Want Writing Different Feelings Care Today Democracy Taken Western What You Want Nobody Cares Different Feelings

Author:Stefan Heym

“The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.”

Hard Government America Interest Democracy Taken Military Conservative Establishment

Author:Amartya Sen

“How long has it taken the democratic process to develop in the United States? Since it was founded. So, do you think that as regards democracy everything is settled now in America? If this were so, there would be no Ferguson issue, right? There would be no other issues of similar kind, there would be no police abuse. Our goal is to see all these issues and respond to them timely and properly. The same applies to Russia. We also have a lot of problems.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin