#democratic

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory. ↗

— Judy Woodruff

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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned. ↗

— Samuel Dash

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It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine. ↗

— Angela Carter

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A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit's constituent rigor and humility and self-honesty are, in fact, so hard to maintain on certain issues that it's almost irresistibly tempting to fall in with some established dogmatic camp and to follow that camp's line on the issue and to let your position harden within the camp and become inflexible and to believe that he other camps are either evil or insane and to spend all your time and energy trying to shout over them. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#humility #open-mindedness #faith

Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards. ↗

— Jeb Bradley

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The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today. ↗

— Shane Claiborne

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I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders. ↗

— Rodney Alexander

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I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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