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The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

It will take years to bring Iraq the democracy it deserves.