#democracies

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#comes #conduct #democracies #elections #structure

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#democracies #dictatorships #hate #i #place

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#democracies #iraq #just #rest #symbol

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations. ↗

— Lionel Jospin

#all nations #become #common #democracies #fight

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#authoritarian #broad #come #democracies #fragile

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#democracies #grounds #poor #terrorism #war

We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#beacon #been #calling #democracies #eastern

How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran? ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#benefited #countries #democracies #how #human

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ↗

— Aristotle

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