"A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system."
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"Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the USSR, it would be nice to see more protest inside the Communist Party but it's not democracy. It's not going to happen. [Shareholder actions] are a good step, but they're mostly symbolic."
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"We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we were trying to do, is again, a tautology, it's true by definition because we were doing, and the state is noble by definition. That's called "extreme liberalism"."
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"Democracy has both expanded and declined over the years."
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"One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule."
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"When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death of democracy." But it makes about the same sense."
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"Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition."
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"Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress."
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"Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?"
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"The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual."
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"While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen."
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"Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence."
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"Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it."
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"Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics."
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"Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes."
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"There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations."
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"There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations. Nowadays, the media have to be there for them, to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government."
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"The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds."
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"We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege."
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"The general will is always right."
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