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Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.
Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.
Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.
Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.
We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.
The problem is the Palestinians don't recognize the legitimacy of Israel.
At every step Donald Trump has been - his legitimacy has been questioned.
International legitimacy is a fundamental source of power for Israel nowadays.
Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.
Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.
Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.
The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.
The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
[ Donald Trump] deference to the president [Barack Obama] whose legitimacy he questioned.
The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.
The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.
The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.
Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.
As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.
It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.
The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.
Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.
Trade, tourism, cultural exchange, and participation in international institutions all serve to erode the legitimacy of repressive regimes.
When you look at territorial disputes, there are good arguments on any sides. I think it's important that we don't take sides on legitimacy.
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust.
People have been skeptical of the Women's March on Washington. Our legitimacy only came from us proving to the rest of the world that we're capable.
Spoiling my ballot paper is the only way I can see of stripping the system of legitimacy, shaking it up, and reforming it so that it favours citizens.
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.
'Lost,' at its core, is a science-fiction show. Live music helps lend an air of legitimacy to this otherwise crazy storyline. It makes a big difference.
Governments that fail to provide jobs to those who are willing and able to work begin to lose their legitimacy and will face the anger of the electorate.
I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.
No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.
A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only with the Security Council.
The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.
For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.
Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
I want the women's division to have that legitimacy, I want it to have that intensity and the aggressiveness, and I feel like that's where I personally can contribute.
Under the French system, you have to take into consideration that every five years, the president is directly elected by the people. He's the one that has the legitimacy.