#racy

There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. ↗

— Katherine Graham

#decide #democracy #does #flourishes #general

Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#court #democracy #died #dies #injected

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy. ↗

— Norman Granz

#enjoy #give #i #i think #long

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general. ↗

— Alfred M. Gray

#defend #democracy #father #general #happen

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#democracy #effective #member #responsibility #understand

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#concept #country #democracy #freedom #idea

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! ↗

— Graham Greene

#clock #cuckoo #democracy #did #five

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#conspiracy #exhaustion #happen #more #politics

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#both #communication #communication skills #did #education

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. ↗

— William Greider

#cleansed #democracy #designed #finest #humiliation