"The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote."
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"This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal."
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"Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power"
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"Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart."
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"Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy."
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"Democracy is hard work."
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"I think that America has to stand with democracy."
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"[We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity."
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"In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them."
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"The second thing we have to do is to make sure that all of us think about how we approach our elections and our democracy not only to secure them from vote tampering, but also to make sure that we understand when propaganda is being churned through the system."
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"We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy."
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"I'd like to think that "President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people.""
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"What I've said is we're going to encourage democracy in Pakistan, expand our nonmilitary aid to Pakistan so that they have more of a stake in working with us, but insisting that they go after these militants."
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"Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th President of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflect his policies. And those who didn't vote for him have to recognize that that's how democracy works. That's how this system operates."
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"That is the nature of democracy. It is hard. It is not always inspiring."
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"Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard."
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"In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened."
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"If people, whether they are conservative or liberal, left or right, are unwilling to compromise and engage in the democratic process, and are taking absolutist views, and demonizing opponents, then democracy will break down."
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"Democracy is a series of choices."
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"An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy."
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