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However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.

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.

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.