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Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

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My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

It will take years to bring Iraq the democracy it deserves.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.