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- The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
- Art Spander
- Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
- Clement Atlee
- Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
- Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
- Alan Corenk
- The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
- The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
- The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992
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