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However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996. -- Todd Akin
America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections. -- Thomas E. Mann
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. -- Gore Vidal
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. -- Noam Chomsky
Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better. -- Beth Simone Noveck
Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy. -- Shashi Tharoor
The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about. -- Barbara Lee
Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself. -- Mimi Kennedy
The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members. -- DeForest Soaries
In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one. -- Salman Khurshid
I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy. -- Joe Lieberman
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. -- Richard Lugar
I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections. -- Garry Kasparov
Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy. -- Jim Bolger
On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all. -- Jim Gerlach
Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years. -- John Negroponte
This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day. -- Danny Glover
Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better. -- Atifete Jahjaga
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
This election result has increased people's faith in democracy. -- Narendra Modi
Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election. -- H. G. Wells
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw
Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it. -- John Fund
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw
Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power -- Barack Obama
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. -- Brad Henry
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan
One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy. -- Imran Khan
Even though the Bush campaign ad tells you that Afghanistan is a new democracy at the Olympics because of Bush's efforts, Afghanistan hasn't actually had an election. -- Peter Schuyler
Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day. -- Lawrence Block

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