Democratic Process Quotes

• The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Engineering, Essence

  Edward L. Bernays (2013). “Public Relations”, p.116, University of Oklahoma Press

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  Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business, Tolerance, Democracy

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• The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

  Jeff Miller

  People, Process, Democratic

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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

  Thinking, Cereal, Election Process

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, August 18, 1956.

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• The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

  Charles Rangel

  Country, Integrity, Rights

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• I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Conservative, Republican

  "Where does Palin stand?". www.sbs.com.au. August 23, 2013.

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• I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

  Robert Mugabe

  Commitment, Agreement, House

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.

  Gina McCarthy

  Rooms, Process, Democratic

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• Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative and democratic processes ... If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice.

  Medea Benjamin

  Teamwork, Positivity, Opportunity

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• This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

  Condoleezza Rice

  People, Style, Democracy

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• The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense a democracy, but it is one in which there are enormous inequities in the distribution of power and force. For example, the entire commercial and industrial system is in principle excluded from the democratic process, including everything that goes on within it

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Distribution Of Power, Democracy

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• Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Technology, Iraq

  "Where Bush got his marching orders" by Jack Ammann, www.cnet.com. October 16, 2004.

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• We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Japan, Ties, Support

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• As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mean, Opposites, Play

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• There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to create their own credit, or their own money, in response to their own needs. We still depended on banks, but it was a much more democratic process.

  David Korten

  Community, United States, Needs

  "Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten". Interview with Dean Paton, www.yesmagazine.org. February 20, 2015.

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• I think there is more creative freedom as a solo artist by far because you might get a group push back on an idea because it's more of a democratic process. You can sink or swim on your own ideas on a solo project.

  Myka 9

  Thinking, Artist, Ideas

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• The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  House, Technique, Debate

  "The United States". The New York magazine article on November 15, 1971, reprinted in "A View from the Stands", 1986.

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• If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me.

  John Howard

  Australia, Community, Process

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• I am happy to note that the BJP as an organization is looking to creatively harness Power of Social Media. We have to ensure our Youth stays engaged in our Democratic process. We have to make our Democratic process accessible to them. Social media is an important tool for this.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Media, Bjp

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• We love your adherence to democratic principles and to democratic processes.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Love You, Principles, Adherence

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• Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Exercise, Majority Vote, Voting

  "Democratic Sen. Stabenow On Health Care". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 4, 2010.

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• Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

  Greg Bear

  Apocalypse, Process, Democratic

  Greg Bear (2014). “The Forge of God”, p.173, Open Road Media

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• Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

  Barry Goldwater

  Heart, Campaigns, Politics

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• The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics.

  Arianna Huffington

  Country, Broken, Tools

  Arianna Huffington (2004). “Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People”, Miramax Books

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• (Terrorists) are planning to disrupt our democratic process. It's scary I know, but we're not going to let al Qaeda tell us what to do. In fact, our government has decided that if al Qaeda attempts to disrupt our democratic process, we are going to respond by disrupting it first.

  Jon Stewart

  Government, Scary, Als

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