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Israel is a lighthouse and the only democracy in a dark and tyrannical region. It's part of us, of our European identity.
Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.
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.
Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.
It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.
I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
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 government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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 always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy.
Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
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.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.
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.
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.
I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
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 saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
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.
The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.
Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.
The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.
Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.
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
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.
I've always thought that the role of citizen, the role of advocate, were as important in our democracy as running for office.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.