“The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence.” PoliticalForceGoalExerciseDegreesConstantDemocraticDuesCuresDiligenceNihilismDemocratic SocietyJudiciaryElectoratePolitical LeadershipDue Diligence Author:Michael Ignatieff
“Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.” NeedsAsksExerciseIdealsDemocraticLipsPropagandaConsistentLip ServiceDemocratic Ideals Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
“Democratic Senator Harry Reid is expected to make a full recovery after he was exercising with a resistance band that snapped, causing him to fall. The good news is he's fine. The bad news is there's no video of it.” FallFineExerciseBandNewsDemocraticExpectedVideoResistanceRecoverySenatorsGood NewsBad News Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.” ProcessDemocracyExerciseVoteMajorityDemocraticVotingDemocratic ProcessMajority Vote Author:Debbie Stabenow
“This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.” StatesFactsAblePoliticalForceNationsSocialUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesStruggleRightsInfluenceMovementDevelopmentExerciseIndependentDemocraticSocialismDespiteRevolutionaryContributionTerrificBannerConstituentsProletariatPolitical LifeDemocratic Rights Author:C. L. R. James
“We've just gone through this period of years where the players in the game were at least written about as being a Democratic administration, establishment Republicans, and then the rabble-rousing radicals of the tea party. And it was like a three-way negotiation between them. But we are going to enter an era where there's a physical, powerful, vibrant progressive movement that will, I think, be able to exercise power in the same way as the right-wing and the right does.” ThinkingWayYearsDoeAbleThreeGamesPowerfulPartyGonePlayerWrittenMovementPeriodsExerciseRepublicanWingsDemocraticRadicalAdministrationTeaErasProgressiveEstablishmentNegotiationRight WingTea PartyThree WaysProgressive Movement Author:Ben Wikler
“Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic rights and to party.” PeopleWorldMeanPartyRightsExerciseDemocraticConventionsDelegatesDemocratic Rights Author:Rob Lowe