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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy Quotes
On civic duty, accountability, and defending democratic ideals.
These quotes treat democracy as something requiring active maintenance, from elections as the basic tool for keeping leaders answerable to broader concern about democratic accountability eroding over time. Explore Democratic quotes for related ideas.
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- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Democrats want to bring in the Third World because these are, by and large, people who have no experience with Constitutional democracy.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, but by their own choice, Puerto Rico is not a state. The relationship has worked well for Puerto Rico - which has strengthened its culture, language and economy - and for the United States, which has helped create in Puerto Rico a showcase of democracy and prosperity for all of Latin America.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grant us more powers, not less; grant us more democracy, not less; grant us the tools to move forward because, I can assure you, Puerto Rico will move forward. We did it in the past; we will do it again.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The G7 - and earlier, the G8 - were a group of countries that shared the same values with regard to freedom and democracy, and through the annexation of Crimea, Russia made it clear at a certain point that these values of keeping the peace, integrity of the borders of a country were not being respected.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020