#racy

I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#always #any #building #democracy #dictator

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#cells #democracy #dictatorship #eat #freedom

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#brian-tracy #evolution #evolve #giving #growing

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#decision making #democracy #first #first thing #go

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. ↗

— Clement Attlee

#discussion #effective #government #means #only

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields. ↗

— Joe Barton

#american #american flag #approach #battlefields #behind

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now? ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#centuries #democracy #did #during #ideas

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#aversion #big #bureaucracy #bureaucrats #care

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. ↗

— William Bennett

#democracy #export #human #human rights #noblest

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#democracy #i #market #pressures #say