We can't attribute a long history of democratic traditions…

Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn't vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960.

— David Suzuki

Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich…

— Vladimir Putin

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

— Vladimir Putin

Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures.

— Garry Kasparov

In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a military dictatorship…

— Garry Kasparov

Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy…The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease,…

— Ralph W. Moss

The CIA has acknowledged that it has detained about 100 terrorists since 9/11, and about a third of them have been subjected to what…

— John O. Brennan

To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five…

— Chris Matthews

As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of…

— Michael Crichton

The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of…

— Paulo Freire

Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even…

— Taiichi Ohno

“All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it…

— Reed Hastings