A free economy is as essential to society as democratic…

Physical infrastructure remains important (particularly in developing nations), but concurrently investing in the development of a knowledge-based economy is essential to sustaining healthy economic…

— Khalid A. Al-Falih

“Deep and liquid markets in a country’s domestic economy are the essential shock absorbers through which the perilous waters of international financial integration can…

— Bibek Debroy

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and…

— Julius Genachowski

A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.

— Ronald Reagan

Economy is essential to all good art.

— Jerry Seinfeld

The unspoken contract between ruler and subject is that in return for safety, prosperity, and prestige, the Russians entrust power and cede democratic freedoms…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Americans could achieve Jefferson’s democratic freedoms through Hamilton’s economic development strategies and trade policies.”

— Patrick Mendis

When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is…

— Arthur Curley

Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.

— Christopher Andreae

We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've…

— Barack Obama

“Man's inclination to justice makes democracy possible; but man's capacity for injustice makes it necessary.' The optimism we need to prevent ourselves from destroying…

— Bernard Crick

The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear…

— Augusto Pinochet

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then…

— Bayard Rustin

But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

— John Dewey