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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)
- If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
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