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We're a robust democracy here. That's the wonderful thing about this country.

~Elaine Chao

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I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals?

~Elaine Sciolino

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It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.

~Elfriede Jelinek

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Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

~Eli Pariser

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Democracies take time.

~Eli Yishai

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The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

~Elia Kazan

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The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.

~Elizabeth Coleman

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The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.

~Elizabeth Coleman

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Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

~Elizabeth Drew

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The American public believes the Founding Fathers were close to infallible and that, while our political system has its faults, it functions far better than other democracies. But is it true?

~Elizabeth Flock

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