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My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.