"I have a lot of faith and confidence in Cuban democracy."
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"[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine."
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"James Comey had nine interactions with Bob Mueller after the Donald Trump's election. And in none of those, Comey testified, did he express any interest, concern, about what the Russians did, how they did it, how do we prevent it. He continuously has in fact denigrated the whole idea and dismissed that it was the Russians, and apparently hasn't yet accepted the 100-percent consensus of everybody that knows about this that this was a conscious and deliberate effort on their part to attack our democracy."
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"That's because of everything the public interest and the media interest is focused on: What did Donald Trump know and when did he know it? Whether there was cooperation with the Russians. I don't mean to say that's a distraction or we shouldn't follow it up. But the underlying story of the Russians trying to subvert our democracy, both through propaganda, planted stories, manipulation of social media and through direct efforts to infiltrate our state election system, is really an enormously significant event. And it's not over."
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"democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy."
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"A global democracy works only when countries trust one another."
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"I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma."
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"We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all."
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"One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country."
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"Burma is not yet a full-fledged democracy. We have started working on the road to full democracy. We have a lot of things to do in order to build a democratic structure and to be become a full-fledged democracy."
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"I think Canada deserves a forthrightly left electoral alternative. I don't see the advantage for our democracy in having a number of parties crowded in the centre. The Liberals are experts at co-opting left language and framings during campaigns, and historically, we know they don't govern like that."
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"Mexico has relied on television for decades to keep the citizens misinformed and in a constant state of stupor. I mean we live in a time where democracy is almost synonymous with oligarchy."
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"Islam and democracy can function together."
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"The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again."
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"An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy."
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"One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman."
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"Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse."
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"Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government"
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"The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned."
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"The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us."
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