Democratic Quotes - Page 37

• Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America.

  Dan Rather

  Running, Real, Fighting

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• It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble minority. It's losing its majority status. And it says, the Republican Party, 'We can only get so many white votes. So, we got to reduce the votes of others.' It does look that way. Only the - maybe you're non-partisan, but only Republicans have pushed this in these 31 states. No Democratic legislature. You gotta look at the pattern here. You talk about profiling. I'm sorry, Republicans do this stuff.

  Chris Matthews

  Sorry, Party, White

  "The Top 20 Worst Chris Matthews Quotes Calling Obama Critics Racist" by Geoffrey Dickens, www.newsbusters.org. November 7, 2013.

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• The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

  Kim Stanley

  Ideas, Corporations, Citizens

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• I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

  Richard Attenborough

  Believe, Democracy, Trade

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

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• Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, War, Rights

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• Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: It is single mothers who run a household. Why? Because it's so tough economically that they look to the government for help and therefore they're going to vote. So if you want to reduce the Democratic advantage, what you want to do is build two parent families, you eliminate that desire for government.

  Rick Santorum

  Mother, Running, Party

  "Rick Santorum: Single Mothers Make Up ‘Democratic Advantage’" by Laura Bassett, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

  John Mahoney

  Jobs, Team, Party

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• Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.

  William Kristol

  Clinton, Beats, Barack

  "Edward Kennedy, Frederick Smith, P.X. Kelley, Roundtable". Fox News Sunday, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 17, 2006.

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• If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

  Judy Woodruff

  War, Air, Presidential

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• I belong to the Democratic Party.

  Darrell Hammond

  Party, Democratic Party

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• Even if corners were cut, (Iran-Contra) was a brilliant scheme. There is no possibility that anyone in any Democratic administration would have gone to such lengths to fund anti-Communist forces. When Democrats scheme from the White House, it's to cover up the President's affair with an intern. When Republicans scheme, it's to support embattled anti-Communist freedom fighters sold out by the Democrats.

  Ann Coulter

  Cutting, Iran, White

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• Looking at the line-up of speakers at the (Democratic National) Convention, I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun of, for example, Dennis Kucinich, if he can prove he can run a 7-11 properly for 8 hours. We'll even let him have an hour or so of preparation before we open up. Within 8 hours, the money will be gone, the store will be empty, and he'll be explaining how three 11-year olds came in and asked for the money and he gave it to them.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Fun, Years

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• Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic society learn to separate good science from bunk. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity, as it affects where large portions of our tax money go, and in some cases even whether people’s lives are lost as a result of nonsense.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  People, Intellectual, Curiosity

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• Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities .... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.

  Sulak Sivaraksa

  Commitment, Priorities, Suffering

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• So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.

  George W. Bush

  Our World, Goal, Support

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?

  Ehud Olmert

  Country, Growing Up, Successful

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• The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state. I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

  Avigdor Lieberman

  Jewish Values, Vision, Democracy

  "The Rise of Avigdor Lieberman". Ben Lynfield, The Nation, December 14, 2006.

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• National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

  Wallace Stegner

  Ideas, National Parks, Worst

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• It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

  Barbara Jordan

  Responsibility, Immigration, Interest

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• Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."

  David Sedaris

  Asking Questions, Waiting Rooms, People

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• Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Opportunity, Yale, Democratic Ideals

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• I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

  Shirley Chisholm

  Country, America, People

  "African-American and Female in One Candidate". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2008.

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• Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Mother, Country, America

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Two, Chapter V, 1840.

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• I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, America, Would Be

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Agency, Purpose, Assembly

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "The Value of Freedom". Chapter 7: "Majority Rules", 1960.

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