Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Liberal democracy is in regression all over the world, and it's a dangerous thing. — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society. — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
In a liberal democracy rapid, radical and fundamental economic change must benefit the many not the few, if it is to gain… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Not everything is so bad... Whichever way you look at it, we feel that we can face the future when the liberal,… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
While we must remain determined to defeat terrorism, it isn't only terrorism we are fighting. It's the beliefs that motivate terrorists. A… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
An informed public democracy means rule of the people. A media system is absolutely essential to that process, if people are going… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it's not our responsibility to turn Afghanistan into a 21st-century, vibrant, economic, liberal democracy with a little L. Our responsibility is… — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
The notion that you can duff up a country for three months, pacify it for a bit longer and then miraculously transform… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
I believe the liberal international order is under assault from Russia, and from other authoritarian regimes, and it is being questioned from… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“To expose the roots of liberal democracy in ethinic conflict is an act of destruction that is necessary to lay the foundations… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
“Theories of agonism emphasize the affective aspects of political relations and accept that disagreement and confrontation are forever ongoing. For political theorist… — Carl DiSalvo Copy Share Image
The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
For a long time, early industrializing countries were absorptive. They were endlessly able to absorb new labor inputs to keep expanding. This… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost… — Tim Soutphommasane Copy Share Image
“Can the West regain its optimism? If the answer is no – and most of the portents are skewing the wrong way… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Here is one final reason to think that the United States may be a state that uses the language of democracy to… — Jason F. Stanley Copy Share Image
“But what about the apparent absurdity of the idea of dignity, freedom, and reason, sustained by extreme military discipline, including of the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Whatever his disappointments, Hamilton, forty, must have left Philadelphia with an immense feeling of accomplishment. The Whiskey Rebellion had been suppressed, the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Despite the support of all these kings and generals, militarily the Warsaw Pact had a huge numerical superiority over NATO. In order… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
I do believe there is absolutely space for legitimate debate in a liberal democracy about immigration selection, screening and integration. — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
“The Saxon/Norman origin of liberal democracy in the English-speaking world is the key to understanding why the discoveries of sociobiology have appeared… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I definitely think America should seek to lead and shape the world and make it safe for liberal democracy. I just don't… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs. — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
All of the dirty tricks, basically, the Russians employ to tear down liberal democracy, we need to work together on a bipartisan… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
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