Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.
When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.
I have always been of the opinion that the right kind of journalism is a critical part of our democracy.
China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.
There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.
But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.
The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.
In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.
The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously.
