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• President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan’s capacity to secure and govern itself.

  David Petraeus

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in President

• In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution – consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• Democracy is about voting and it’s about a majority vote. And it’s time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Topics in Democracy

• You can’t be a full participant in our democracy if you don’t know our history.

  David McCullough

  Topics in Democracy, History

• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy, Failure, History, Inspirational, Life, Love, Truth

  Tags in Despair

• America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

  David Brooks

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Dreams

• It’s all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

  David Brock

  Topics in Democracy

• Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

  David Brin

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Empower

• Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

  Peter Hook

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Loudest

• Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

  Dave Brubeck

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Like, Freedom

• Many people don’t understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz… And that is really the idea of democracy – freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don’t just get out there and do anything you want.

  Dave Brubeck

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

  Imran Khan

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in People, Election

• There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

  Imran Khan

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Allowed

• After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in War

• El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

  Dan Quayle

  Topics in Democracy

• A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

  Peter Fenn

  Topics in Country, Democracy

• Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don’t see that it’s crucial for a democracy!

  David Baldacci

  Topics in Democracy

• After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Topics in Democracy

• Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

  Robert Byrne

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Elections, Vote

• Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

  Peter Bichsel

  Topics in Democracy, History

  Tags in Dictatorship