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Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.
We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.
Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.
If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.
Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.
I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy.
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.
The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
Erasing national borders does not make people safer or more prosperous. It undermines democracy and trades away prosperity.
Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.
Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.
... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.
The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.
The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.
I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.
I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.
I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones
In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam.
Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.