- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democratically Quotes
Quotes on democratically elected leaders and political legitimacy.
This collection gathers quotes that use the word 'democratically,' most often describing elected leaders and the legitimacy that comes from being chosen through a vote. The quotes span different countries and eras, reflecting on what it means to respect an election's outcome.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my perspective the idea of resisting a democratically elected president and basically throwing everything at him and, you know, really changing the norms on the grounds that we have to stop this president, that is where the shredding of our norms and our institutions is occurring.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Georgia, where I spend much time, the democratically elected pro-western President Mikhail Saakashvili has been beleaguered by a riotous opposition which proposes creating a constitutional monarchy under the Bagrationi dynasty, with a Spanish racing driver, Prince 'Jorge' Bagrationi, as king.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, who had dared to wander away from the mogul's path.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a democratically elected president of Iran you don't topple him for the Shah. You don't help topple Arbenz in Guatemala. You don't do what we did in Vietnam, etc.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you attack our democratically elected representatives, you attack our institutions, all our people and our sovereignty, and we will never allow that.
- Dispel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.
- Ethnic
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- Nov 07, 2020
A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1954, Guatemala's deposed president, the democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz, was forced to strip down to his underwear and photographed before being allowed to leave the country.
- Peacock
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most critical histories of U.S. involvement in Iran rightly began with the joint British-U.S. coup against democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, which installed Pahlavi on the Peacock Throne. But it was Kissinger who, in 1972, greatly deepened the relationship between Washington and Tehran.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of how Chile, in the decades after its 1973 coup and death of democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, became one of the most neoliberal societies on the planet is well known.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020