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I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception. -- Tony Judt
The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices. -- David Blunkett
The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice. -- Benazir Bhutto
Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence. -- Bayard Rustin
On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state. -- Hassan Nasrallah
What I did in New York was bring people together, an overwhelmingly Democratic state. But I was able to get Democrats to support the most conservative sweeping policy changes in any state in America. -- George Pataki
The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony. -- Hans Blix
The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's colonialism rather than Iran's nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine. -- Thomas Friedman
It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations. -- Paddy Ashdown
It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us. -- Ariel Sharon
I think it is essential for Israel's survival as a Jewish and democratic state that we end the status quo. The preferred way to end the status quo would be on the basis of a two-state solution. We don't want the Palestinians to be citizens of Israel, nor do we want them to be subjects. -- Michael Oren
American is the first democratic nation-state. -- Stephen Ambrose
The basis of a democratic state is liberty -- Aristotle
So Israel won't be a democratic state, so what. -- Sheldon Adelson
The worst of all States is the democratic State. -- Pierre Corneille
You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state. -- Vaclav Klaus
There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state. -- Aleksander Kwasniewski
Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated. -- Condoleezza Rice
We had the opposition of virtually the entire Democratic leadership in every state in this country. -- Bernie Sanders
If the choice is one-state, Israel can either be Jewish or Democratic. It cannot be both. -- John F. Kerry
There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery. -- Gilles Deleuze
With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established. -- Ruhollah Khomeini
A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak. -- June Jordan
The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything. -- Mark Steyn
The dangerous glorification of the nation state, and the baiting of minorities that goes along with it, releases an anti-democratic energy. -- Martin Schulz
Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it. -- Jacques Maritain
Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds. -- Jonathan Sacks
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state. -- Walter Lippmann
Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern. -- Mohammed Morsi
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans. -- Leopoldo Lopez
That's what I am standing up for - Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state living side-by-side in peace and security with its neighbors. -- John F. Kerry
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. -- Friedrich Engels
For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble. -- Michael Ignatieff
Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom. -- Winston Churchill
You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it is an essence of action. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
We continue to believe that a two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to stay both a Jewish state and democratic. -- Barack Obama
Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence. -- Theodore White
If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here. -- June Jordan

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