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title: "3 Question Democracy Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-alterman/whether-people-care-enough-about-local-news-to-pay-for-it-is-sadly-an/)

[Eric Alterman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-alterman/)

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> [The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmar-gabriel/the-new-social-question-is-democracy-or-the-rule-of-the-financial/)

[Sigmar Gabriel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmar-gabriel/)

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> [“NM: My Lord, it is not a question of form, it is a question of democracy. If democracy would be best expressed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/nm-my-lord-it-is-not-a-question-of-form-it-is-a-question-of-democracy/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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