#demo

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to. ↗

— Angela Davis

#democracy #i #often #referring #says

The Democratic Party has gotten narrower and it's gotten smaller and it's fundamentally wrong on all the key questions involving the economic future of this country and our hopes of prosperity. And many Americans are beginning to realize that. ↗

— Artur Davis

#country #democratic #democratic party #economic #economic future

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#authoritarian #beacon #cannot #china #democracy

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#done #first #first time #little #releases

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#democracy #like #limits #relationship #rests

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#average #build #democracies #democracy #democratic

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#communism #continues #democratic #infallible #myth

Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#church #clubs #could #cub #demographics

Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#democracy #east #i #i do #itself

And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#essential #fighting #made #sacrifices #should