Joichi Ito Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

  Joichi Ito

  Believe, Ideas, Rights

• Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

  Joichi Ito

  Rights, Democracy, Liberty

• We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

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  Fighting, Opportunity, Japan

• I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

  Joichi Ito

  Broken Heart, Japan, Democracy

• Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

  Joichi Ito

  Media, Democracy, Cash

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