#democracy

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#constitutional #democracy #freedom #greater #hope

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#combine #commitment #democracy #essential #skepticism

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy. ↗

— Chris Bell

#american #american people #conduct #delay #democracy

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#cannot #cured #democracy #engine #envy

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective. ↗

— Paul Biya

#culture #democracy #famous #objective #our

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#anything #avoid #because #blatant #could

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world. ↗

— John Doolittle

#around #belief #country #democracy #freedom

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#by the time #changing #democracy #done #get

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#everyone #means #opportunity #slave

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#challenge #cultivation #decisively #democracy #direction