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Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world. ↗

— Judy Biggert

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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

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As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board. ↗

— James Bovard

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I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

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The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

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Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. ↗

— Fred Upton

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