Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Statesman, Founder of Republic
"No country is free unless it is democratic."
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Democratic
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Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor."
Salvador Dali
Artist, Surrealist
"Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making."
Barbara Jordan
Politician, Lawyer
"It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry."
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"There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government."
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"If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong."
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"President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating."
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"Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm."
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"how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?"
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"Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many."
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"My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic."
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"I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican."
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"Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system."
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"The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history."
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"I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off."
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"The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it."
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"If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic?"
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"De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse."
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"I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies."
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"I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic."
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"Any democratic sentiment propels my politics."
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"I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic."
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"The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech."
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"The United States had eight years of Barack Obama. He made it incredibly clear that he was a right-wing Democrat. He cited Ronald Reagan lovingly in every stump speech for the last six months of the presidential 2008 campaign. And he made it clear that he was going to be a business-friendly Democratic president, and that he was not going to rock the neoliberal boat. And he didn't."
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