#demo

You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility? ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#afghanistan #democracy #enough #first #haitians

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#five #i #neither #nor #past

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

#aspirations #certain #clash #competitive #culture

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#global #head #health #historic #international

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#democratic #democratic system #different #go #i

I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#colors #demonstrate #how #i #important

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#carter #democrats #difference #increasingly #like

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#conditions #democracy #development #information #knowledge

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#demonstrate #existence #god #his #known

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#compromise #democratic #messy #politics #transitions