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Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.

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

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.