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You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

This election marks a significant moment in Haiti; it not only serves as the basis of hope along the road to democracy, but also serves as a testament to the resolve and character of the Haitian people during their long struggle for peace, reconciliation, and prosperity.

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.