Democratic Quotes - Page 27

• You have to understand that for the most part in New York, whoever gets the Democratic nomination wins.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Winning, Nominations

  "The 21 best exchanges in The Washington Post's Trump interviews" by Nick Gass and Nolan D. McCaskill, www.politico.com. August 30, 2016.

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• African-American communities have suffered under Democratic control. To those, I say the following: What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump? What do you have to lose?

  Donald Trump

  Trying Something New, Community, African American

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• How long has it taken the democratic process to develop in the United States? Since it was founded. So, do you think that as regards democracy everything is settled now in America? If this were so, there would be no Ferguson issue, right? There would be no other issues of similar kind, there would be no police abuse. Our goal is to see all these issues and respond to them timely and properly. The same applies to Russia. We also have a lot of problems.

  Vladimir Putin

  Taken, Thinking, Russia

  "Sott Exclusive: Full unedited text of Vladimir Putin's interview with Charlie Rose: What CBS left out". www.sott.net. September 29, 2015.

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• Only a developed society, for example, only a strong democratic system in modern conditions can create a climate in which any manifestation of terrorism is unacceptable and can also make the state itself stronger.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strong, Climate, Example

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• The Democratic Party is a coalition. Its strength and its weakness is, it's a coalition of interest groups, caucuses. It's a lot less homogeneous than the Republican Party, where people tend to believe the same things and oftentimes look alike.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Believe, People

  "Shields and Brooks: Will Voters Think Democrats Have Gone Too Liberal?". PBS Newshour, www.pbs.org. July 22, 2010.

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• Frankly speaking, I could never even imagine that such information would be of interest to the American public or that the campaign headquarters of one of the candidates - in this case, Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton - apparently worked for her, rather than for all the Democratic Party candidates in an equal manner. I could never assume that anybody would find it interesting.

  Vladimir Putin

  Party, Interesting, Information

  Source: thesaker.is

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• So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Individuality, Nuisance, Values

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• Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.

  Harold Stassen

  Home, America, Fire

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• There are three major political organizations in this country: the Republican Party, the Democratic Party and the Koch Brothers Party. With billions to spend on campaigns. think tanks and 'educational' organizations, the Koch brothers are the most powerful. We must overturn Citizens United, move to public funding of elections and pass real tax reform.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Brother, Powerful

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• Tonight I am going with my wife to a Democratic party, where we're going to...try to be happy.

  Joe Lieberman

  Party, Wife, Trying

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• I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One democratic state. He declared one offer, I am declaring the other offer. With two communities.

  Yasser Arafat

  Two, Community, Challenges

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be able to read to save their soul. That idea got transposed into an idea of the importance of literacy for democratic citizenship.

  Robert Hass

  Ideas, Soul, Able

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• It was one of the great mass achievements of American civilization, and we did it because we thought if you were going to have a democratic form of government, people had to be able to read and understand complicated ideas on their own.

  Robert Hass

  Civilization, Ideas, Government

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• Most progressive in the Democratic Party doesn't cut it, you know. If we still can't have a health care system that provides health care as a human right, if we still cannot, you know, ban fracking and fossil fuels and move like our lives depend on it - you know, we say in the next 15 years we need to phase out fossil fuels.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Moving, Cutting

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• [Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an absolute assault on our democracy.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Democracy, Progressive

  Source: www.politico.com

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• They knocked out Bernie [Sanders] as they would have knocked him out, like [Barack] Obama if he came into office. So I don't think the Democratic Party is going to solve it for us.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Under Donald Trump, you know, we've seen the foundation of the Republican Party move into the Democratic Party, so Donald Trump, I think, will have a lot of trouble moving things through Congress.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Moving, Thinking

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• To millennials, the Democratic Party is the party of endless debt, it is the party of low-wage jobs, it is the part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it is the party of the KXL pipeline, which was only stopped because, you know, because we, the voters, you know, just worked our bones - you know, worked ourselves to the bone in order to stop it.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Party, Order

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I believe that without looking at each other as rivals or as competitors, in a democratic India, operating in the framework of an open economy, an open society has, I think, some significance for developing countries, not only in Asia but outside Asia.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• I like to remember what Michelle Obama said in her amazing speech at our Democratic National Convention: When they go low, we go high. And Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.

  Hillary Clinton

  Best Effort, Speech, Remember

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Global governance need not take a democratic form.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Needs, Form, Governance

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with all its parties is representative of the political opinions among the citizens. It is reasonable to claim that the people rule itself through the political institutions.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Country, Party, Political Opinions

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The Democratic Party is very afraid of having competition that is actually unmuzzled and that can tell the truth, which is why they keep this fear voting system in place.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Voting, Competition

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Am I disappointed in Barack Obama? Yes, I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama and I'm disappointed in the Democratic administration and in the two Democratic houses of Congress for two years that bailed out Wall Street when they should have bailed out Main Street.

  Jill Stein

  Wall, Should Have, Years

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

  Shimon Peres

  Thinking, Perception, Trying

  "Q & A with Israel President Shimon Peres". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

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