#democracy

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#common people #democracy #deserve #get #good

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ↗

— Joichi Ito

#cash #check #companies #consolidation #continuing

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#decided #democracy #fixing #i #japan

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#freedom #fuzzy #human #human rights #liberty

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#because #build #communism #democracy #discussed

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#certain #confusion #democracy #neat #orderly

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#deliberation #democracy #our #soul #stir

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#control #credit #currency #democracy #futile

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#democracy #ethiopia #infancy #leaders #must

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#democracy #flourish #followed #given #greatest