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  • In any democratic country you have more than one view.

    "Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.
  • From that viewpoint, America, free country, democratic country, so more opportunity. Still is more sort of Alive. This is my feeling.

    Source: www.kpbs.org
  • If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

  • Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

    "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Two, Chapter V, 1840.
  • No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.

    "The Downing Street Years". Book by Margaret Thatcher, October 18, 1993.
  • The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

    "Smash the Ceiling". www.newyorker.com. August 1, 2011.
  • The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

    Peace   Thinking   People  
  • We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

    Gore speech, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 23, 2002.
  • Pakistan is a peace loving, democratic country. Pashtuns want education for their daughters and sons. Islam is a religion of peace, humanity and brotherhood.

    "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". Speech at the United Nations, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.
  • No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

    "Development as Freedom". Book by Amartya Sen, 1999.
  • Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.

    Country   Law   Wish  
  • Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

    "Where Bush got his marching orders" by Jack Ammann, www.cnet.com. October 16, 2004.
  • India is a democratic country & anyone can become a PM.

  • No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

    Country   Peace   War  
    Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.268, Penguin
  • Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.

    Country   War   Rights  
  • Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

    Country   Sunday   Night  
    "U.K. MEP Gives Epic Warning On Greek Chaos: 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!'" by Jonathon M. Seidl, www.businessinsider.com. February 15, 2012.
  • The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].

    Country   Art   Laughter  
    Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
  • South Africa now needs skilled and educated people to say 'How do we manage and develop this democratic country?'

    Country   People   Needs  
    "Tregernomics Interview with President Thabo Mbeki". Interview with Adam Treger, www.mbeki.org. October 31, 2016.
  • In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.

    Country   Clever   Self  
    George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.43, Penguin UK
  • In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

  • Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't take the form of a heavy handed police state.

    Country   Years   Police  
    Source: www.cbc.ca
  • In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.

  • There should be no political prisoners in a democratic country.

    Source: www.rfa.org
  • All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of property - not only are they possessed of property but they live in the condition of men who set the greatest store upon their property.

    Wisdom   Country   Men  
    Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.534, Bantam Classics
  • I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

  • In democratic countries, however opulent a man is supposed to be, he is almost always discontented with his fortune, because he finds that he is less rich than his father was, and he fears that his sons will be less rich than himself.

    Country   Father   Son  
    Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.463, Bantam Classics
  • Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

    Voting   Democracy   Vote  
    "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.
  • Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

    "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 11 (p. 106), 1958.
  • When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

    "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".
  • In view of Chinas growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asias permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

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