#democrat

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#bad #build #company #dayton #democratic

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#democrat #democrat party #future #liberal #party

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#christian #conscription #contradiction #democratic #flat

I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up. ↗

— Paul Begala

#democrats #i #i think #many #think

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#capitalism #democratic #democratic society #economy #example

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful. ↗

— Joe Biden

#barack #barack obama #been #candidate #democratic

I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#aware #democratic #east #exclusively #i

A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#confidence #democratic #democratization #desire #exists

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#both #country #democratization #differ #east