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The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it. -- Jeff Miller
We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development. -- Ali Abdullah Saleh
I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off. -- Gina McCarthy
The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes. -- James Hansen
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. -- Malcolm Forbes
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. -- Robert Mugabe
I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process. -- Sarah Palin
I'm the one who initiated the democratic process. -- Jean-Claude Duvalier
Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process. -- Greg Bear
You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence. -- Kevin McCloud
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. -- Abdallah II
The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago. -- Steven Spielberg
It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it. -- Ella T. Grasso
The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. -- Edward Bernays
Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process. -- Debbie Stabenow
This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy. -- Condoleezza Rice
To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process. -- John Lewis
Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate. -- Andrew Cuomo
Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam. -- Lauren Beukes
The democratic process on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process, but should be applied to the industrial operation as well. -- Albert Gallatin
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.' -- Joshua Foer
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear. -- Charles Rangel
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear. -- Charles Rangel
I think in the world we live in where television is the principal source of information for most people, it really affects the balance of the democratic process. The fairness of the democratic process. -- Alexander Stille
As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving. -- Lauryn Hill
The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility. -- L. Neil Smith
Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process. -- Julian Castro
The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process. -- Geoff Hoon
We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator. -- Ted Cruz
What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor. -- Jack Kingston
Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the world and shape it, to participate in democratic processes and have a voice, and also to strengthen their cultural identity. -- Irina Bokova
It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process. -- Jackie Speier
Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative and democratic processes ... If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice. -- Medea Benjamin
There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to create their own credit, or their own money, in response to their own needs. We still depended on banks, but it was a much more democratic process. -- David Korten
I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process. -- Brandon Boyd
Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that. -- Eliot Spitzer
If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their preferences. When you hear someone say that he doesn't trust the market, and wants to replace it with government edicts, he's really calling for a switch from a democratic process to a totalitarian one. -- Walter E. Williams
I think anything we do outside of Gym Class Heroes still falls under the Gym Class Heroes umbrella. There's really no method to the madness. With Gym Class, it's more of a democratic process, and when I'm working on solo stuff, it's just me, either working with producers or sitting in a room by myself. They balance and complement each other. -- Travie McCoy
The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense a democracy, but it is one in which there are enormous inequities in the distribution of power and force. For example, the entire commercial and industrial system is in principle excluded from the democratic process, including everything that goes on within it -- Noam Chomsky
No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process. -- Ian Mcewan
Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process. -- Barry Goldwater
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. -- Abdallah II
Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz. -- Wynton Marsalis
I would ask [protesters] to please respect - I'd ask them to please respect the democratic process. -- Rudy Giuliani
The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process. -- Jack Kemp
If I am wrong and you are right then the democratic process of the Australian community will vindicate you and condemn me. -- John Howard
Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades. -- Condoleezza Rice
The proper way to make policy decisions under our Constitution in America is for the people to do so through the democratic process. -- Ted Cruz
The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it. -- Jeff Cooper
As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had normal and democratic elections, -- Ilham Aliyev
Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political process and enforced through law. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked. -- Luis Gutierrez
Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process... -- Tom Ridge
If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process. -- Felix Frankfurter
No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters. -- Greta Van Susteren
Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements. -- Rush Limbaugh
Where is democratic process or popular sovereignty for the endangered population? It cannot be "given" or "allocated" by some other power without that same power claiming the right to withdraw what it gives. -- Judith Butler
If people, whether they are conservative or liberal, left or right, are unwilling to compromise and engage in the democratic process, and are taking absolutist views, and demonizing opponents, then democracy will break down. -- Barack Obama

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