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  • Bill Moyers America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Bill Clinton American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bob Nelson An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.
    Bob Nelson
    American comedian and actor (1958 - )
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  • John Donne And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Ahmed Chalabi And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.
    Ahmed Chalabi
    Iraqi politician (1944 - 2015)
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  • Gore Vidal Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Guy Debord Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Lincoln As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Aeschines Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
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  • W. H. Auden Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Martin Luther Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
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  • Doug Horton Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Florence King Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Bernie Sanders Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • André Malraux Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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