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

  Jeff Miller

  People, Process, Democratic

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

  John Lewis

  People, Impossible, Vote

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• This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.

  Frances Perkins

  Believe, Mean, People

  Frances Perkins (2011). “The Roosevelt I Knew”, p.104, Penguin

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• No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

  Greta Van Susteren

  Campaigns, Looks, Process

  "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

  Jean-Claude Duvalier

  Process, Democratic

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• If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an antithetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation.

  Max De Pree

  People, Innovation, Climate

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• What we are lacking in Burma is an independence effective judiciary, and unless we have all three of the democratic institutions - strong and healthy, we cannot say that our democratic processes (is complete).

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Strong, Healthy, Independence

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Liberty, Weight, Process

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• In Burma, under the present Constitution, the Army can always take over all parts of government if they think this is necessary. so until the Army comes out clearly and consistently in support of the democratic process we cannot say that it's irreversible. But I don't think we need fear a reversal too much either.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Army, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• I think Hillary [Clinton] has [woken up to the plight of the middle class] and is working toward it in a democratic process.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Class, Plight

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with the comparably slow democratic processes. Many young people - and some old people - want to know, Why does everything take so long? Why can't someone just decide and then move forward?

  Anne Applebaum

  Moving, Long, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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