#racy

The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#haiti #hemisphere #high #important #interest

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#against #argument #average #best #conversation

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#democracy #except #form #government #others

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets. ↗

— Helen Clark

#certainly #democracy #fair #had #lifetime

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame. ↗

— Wesley Clark

#closed #dealing #democracy #even #i

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#burgeoning #business #businessmen #cost #discourage

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#because #deep #deep down #down #fear

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#american #big #book #conspiracy #family

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#any #comfort #disguises #disposal #does

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#away #competition #democracy #essential #i