“I think in the world we live in where television is the principal source of information for most people, it really affects the balance of the democratic process. The fairness of the democratic process.” PeopleThinkingWorldProcessInformationTelevisionSourceBalanceDemocraticFairnessPrincipalDemocratic Process Author:Alexander Stille
“Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.” PeopleHumansWellsMayPoliticalAbilityRolesGreaterRightsAchieveSourceLimitsDemocraticWestHuman RightsVariousConstructiveRepressionNigeriaInstabilityFull PotentialPeacekeepingWest AfricaNigeria IndependencePolitical Instability Author:Susan Rice
“Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money is this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.” TurnsPartyCasesEffectsSourcePaidUnionsDemocraticDemocratDuesEmployeeFundMechanismReportersDemocratic PartyTaxpayersPennies Author:Michael Barone
“It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.” RealSourceDemocraticAccountabilityParliamentLegitimacy Author:David Cameron
“We got the first WikiLeaks publication of documents hacked and stolen by Russian government sources from the DNC, from the Democratic Party, and they started publishing those stolen documents from the DNC right before the Democrats started their convention.Good political timing if you`re trying to help [Donald] Trump and hurt the Democrats.” IfsTryingFirstsHelpingGovernmentPoliticalHurtPartySourceTrumpDemocraticDemocratConventionsPublishingTimingDocumentsStolenDemocratic PartyPublicationWikileaksHackedRussian GovernmentGood Political Author:Rachel Maddow
“Salafi is a very broad concept in Islam. What we have now is, like, for example, the Nour Party in Egypt or the Salafi in Tunisia are people who, in fact, we call very often Wahhabi, following the Saudi school of thought and law. And they are literalists in the way where it's black and white, there's a very narrow interpretation of the scriptural sources. For decades, we knew that they were there, but they were not involved in politics. What is completely new for all of us over the last years is that they are now within the political arena and playing the democratic game.” PeopleWayYearsFactsSchoolLastsLawPoliticalGamesBlackWhitePartyExampleSourceInvolvedConceptsDemocraticIslamFollowingDecadesInterpretationBroadsBlack And WhiteLast YearEgyptArenaSaudisTunisia Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.” InspirationalWisdomKnowledgePowerSourceDemocraticFuture Shock Author:Alvin Toffler