"I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic."
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"Any democratic sentiment propels my politics."
"I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic."
"The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech."
"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."
"Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations."
"The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient."
"The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way."
"The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives"
"We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis."
"The real question is not what one person's going to do, what are we all going to do? How are we all going to pitch in to fix this party to make working America know that the Democratic party is absolutely on their side? That's the real question."
"What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular."
"The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is."
"Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties."
"I learned that the American people are pretty great people. And they are just poorly served by their leadership, and Washington's very much out of touch with the struggles of ordinary Americans. My hope is that we'll have a Democratic Administration, and then we'll hold their feet to the fire so they start performing for people who put them there."
"We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question."