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There's a big conservative press unabashedly and for the Democrats and even people to the left of the Democratic party, there's almost virtually no outlets that you can compare with the vast array of conservative press that's out there. William J. Clinton
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Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. Sarah Palin
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To be honest, it's a bit of a relief not having to be the party animal for a change. Sara Cox
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In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions. Rhys Ifans
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I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins. Richard Rorty
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Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people. Karen Aroesty
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Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.
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Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice. Samuel P. Huntington
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The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism. Walter Lippmann
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In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen. Ruhollah Khomeini
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I hope that those who don't get their way show some more maturity than in the past. There are people in Haiti who still need to learn that in a democracy you don't always get your way.
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The message is one of jobs and democracy and honesty and open government, ... Good foreign policy starts in your neighborhood. Laura Bush
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The event is good way to get students to register to vote. I think it helps with democracy more than anything. It's a good way to get a lot of student support.
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Democracy is good for world peace. Manmohan Singh
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It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,
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The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan, Chris Patten
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Truth is not determined by a majority vote. Pope Benedict XVI
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The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor. Peter Jackson
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I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place. Kendrick Lamar
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The majority is always sane. Larry Niven
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A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority Mahatma Gandhi
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority Henrik Ibsen
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All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority. Thomas Reed