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The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

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.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.