#racy

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks. ↗

— Chris Patten

#everybody #including #jerks #represented #right

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized. ↗

— Robert Blake

#clean #five #growing #growing up #i

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#agencies #billions #bureaucracy #cards #credit

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. ↗

— Hyman Rickover

#bureaucracy #forgive #god #going #sin

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#choose #democracy #get #man #people

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

#east #here #middle #middle east

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. ↗

— Alfred E. Smith

#democracy #ills #more

In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man. ↗

— B.F. Skinner

#leadership #suffrage #leadership

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it. ↗

— Harold Ford

#big #big proponent #bureaucracies #bureaucracy #enthusiastic

[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#ideas #internet #open-government #writing #change