Alan Blinder Quotes, Democracy Quotes, Public Opinion Quotes

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

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In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

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Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

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The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

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Iraq and Afghanistan are now democracies and they are allies in the cause of freedom and peace.

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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

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A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

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I'd like to see stability and a unified Iraq. A young democracy will provide the stability we look for. I will tell you that if we just isolate ourselves from the Middle East and hope for the best, we will not address the conditions that had led young suiciders to get on airplanes to come and attack Amerika in the first place.

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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

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The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.

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What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

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You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

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Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

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