Agendas Quote by Eric Alterman

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

— Dean Acheson

Democracy, of course, requires strong demands from the public.

— John Ralston Saul

We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

— Akbar Ganji

International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power.

— Anonymous

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

— Noam Chomsky

It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.

— Wesley Clark

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of…

— Eli Pariser

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

— Bernard Crick

The defence of democracy must consist in making anti-democratic experiences too costly for those who try them; much more costly than a democratic compromise

— Karl Popper

Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of…

— George W. Bush

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy,…

— Olusegun Obasanjo