Democratic Quotes - Page 5

• The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

  Richard J. Daley

  Party, Political, Politics

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• I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

  Nelson Mandela

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Equality

  Statement at trial, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 Apr. 1964

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• The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Power, Essence

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.305, Best Books on

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• The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

  John Bruton

  Hymns, World, Growing

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• I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Party, Cold

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• We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

  Carl Levin

  Mean, Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

  Ken Mehlman

  Hymns, America, Leader

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• There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Funny, Humorous, Party

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• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  J. B. Priestley

  War, Years, Hymns

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• Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Hymns, Becoming

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• Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

  Edward Bond

  Democracy, Literature, Violence

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• We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

  Al Gore

  Country, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Gore speech, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 23, 2002.

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• He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.

  Henry Waxman

  Past, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Politics Today, Answers

  Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, on February 18, 1958. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: Profiles in Courage Quotations", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

  James Carville

  Party, Teaching, Church

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• What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Humorous, Political

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• He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

  Sandy Berger

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

  Henri La Fontaine

  Country, Hymns, Shepherds

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• So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

  John F. Kerry

  Real, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

  Henry Miller

  Unique, Egalitarianism, Vices

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

  Barbara Jordan

  Party, People, Giving

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

  Natan Sharansky

  Iron, Generations, Literature

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• The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Long, Reform, Lists

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• The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

  Natan Sharansky

  Leadership, Simple, Reform

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