#democracy

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#country #democracy #fact #in fact #leaders

We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come. ↗

— King Hussein I

#believe #come #create #democracy #generations

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. ↗

— John James Ingalls

#democracy #equal #grave #last #men

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. ↗

— Dean Inge

#democracy #disadvantage #experiment #government #instead

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#addiction #break #democracy #gives #greater

It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford. "It is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards?" "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?" "What?" "I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?" "I'll look. Tell me about the lizards." Ford shrugged again. "Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it." "But that's terrible," said Arthur. "Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#democracy #ford-prefect #h #humor

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ↗

— Aristotle

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It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. ↗

— Brad Henry

#day #democracy #election #election day #far

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#concentrated #country #democracy #few #great

Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues. ↗

— Chris Bell

#challenges #choose #circle #closed #democracy