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We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United… — Jimmy Carter
We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which… — Jimmy Carter
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war. — Jimmy Carter
Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. — Jimmy Carter
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation. — Jimmy Carter
I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able… — Jimmy Carter
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having… — Jimmy Carter
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. — Fidel Castro
We're not perfect, but we do have democracy. — Hugo Chavez
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here. — Hugo Chavez
Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer.… — Hugo Chavez
Television is democracy at its ugliest. — Paddy Chayefsky
Advertising is the very essence of democracy. — Anton Chekhov
We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making… — Dick Cheney
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to… — Noam Chomsky
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised… — Noam Chomsky
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. — Noam Chomsky
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. — Winston Churchill
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. — Winston Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. — Winston Churchill
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the… — Winston Churchill

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