Our democracy is a democracy under siege.
Mangala Samaraweera
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NARENDRA MODI Democracy derailed is democracy denied.
CHAKA FATTAH This is a sad day for our democracy.
CATHERINE WEISS It's close to democracy, if not true democracy. Our problems are being solved.
ABDUL RASHID Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Democracy is not a requirement ..it is right ... Democracy is not a choice.. it is justice!
HESHAM NEBR Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not ack...
SHIRIN EBADI I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
A. J. LIEBLING Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.
CHRISTINA ENGELA The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
H. L. MENCKEN The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!
H. L. MENCKEN There is no such thing called democracy. But, bad democracy and good democracy are two sides of the ...
EPHDAN Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
WEN JIABAO Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
TATYANA ALI Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
GORE VIDAL Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
PETER USTINOV Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.
BARACK OBAMA We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, whi...
JIMMY CARTER One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means tha...
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JACK KINGSTON Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a dem...
CHARLES FRANKEL This is really shocking. It's really a pity to lose our democracy again.
CORAZON AQUINO Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of De...
HUGO CHAVEZ Democracy is a fragile institution.
BOB GRAHAM Democracy is a good client.
EMILIO AZCARRAGA JEAN Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was...
A.E. SAMAAN Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
ARLEN SPECTER To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
MAHMOUD DARWISH Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
ANDRE MALRAUX We remain essentially a nation under siege.
THEODORE C. SORENSEN Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do...
DOUG LARSON We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really n...
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RAHUL GANDHI This is not chauvinistic, ... Our purpose, our mission is to share democracy with the world.
ANTHONY KENNEDY Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet...
PAT BUCHANAN It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening dem...
NAOMI WOLF Change is inevitable in a democracy.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.
JOHN PILGER Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americ...
BARBARA BOXER We are just under siege,
ANDY MILLER We are living under siege.
ABU AHMED Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
PETER USTINOV This case asks us: Who exactly is our democracy being forged for?
CARRIE SHELVER Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democrac...
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JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We en...
WYNTON MARSALIS Our interests in security and our interests in democracy are indivisible,
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DAI QING Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
RON PAUL Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War,...
PAT BUCHANAN Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSON There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.
MARTIN O'MALLEY In a democracy, power is not permanent.
LALU PRASAD YADAV There is a danger in democracy itself.
DANNY KAYE Democracy is more than a ballot box.
MOHAMED ELBARADEI In a democracy government is the God.
AMIT KALANTRI All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
ALFRED E. SMITH All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
ALFRED SMITH All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
ALFRED EMANUEL SMITH All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
AL SMITH Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me b...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA Our leaders pay lip service to the freedoms that democracy provides while actually supporting an eco...
JACQUE FRESCO When you restore democracy, you cannot say that only those who worked for the restoration of democra...
CORAZON AQUINO We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we d...
WADADA LEO SMITH Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal...
JOHN OLIVER Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
VLADIMIR LENIN Democracy without morality is impossible.
JACK KEMP Justice delayed is democracy denied.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.
EDWARD ABBEY Jazz is democracy in music.
WYNTON MARSALIS Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.
ISKANDER MIRZA This summit should bring peace to the Congo, ... We have to work toward democracy in the Congo becau...
YOWERI MUSEVENI We don't have ETA claiming these attacks but (they) bear its signatures... ETA is aiming at disrupti...
ANA PALACIO This is the era in our hemisphere of democracy, not dictators. Constitutions, not coups.
COLIN POWELL And is Saudi Arabia a democracy, or Kuwait?
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.
STOCKWELL DAY Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much...
EDWARD ABBEY The Americans say they brought democracy -- yes, we have democracy, but on paper,
IBRAHIM ALI Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
BENAZIR BHUTTO I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is ...
JEANE KIRKPATRICK We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democrac...
ENRIQUE PENA NIETO Voting on things is democratic, yes - but not on deciding on whether or not people should be equal o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
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APOLLONIUS OF TYANA A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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MICHAEL MOORE Democracy is a continuous, open process of civility.
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HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.
ISMAIL HANIYEH Democracy is the road to socialism.
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