Demand Quote by Margaret Halsey

The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of…

— Valerie Plame

People in charge of intelligence are political as well.

— Rick Santelli

Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

— Frances Moore Lappé

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

— Henry A. Kissinger

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

— Naomi Wolf

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or…

— Ernest Hemingway

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

— Hillary Clinton

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

— Dick Gephardt

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

— George Soros