„I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But I certainly will support the outcome of this election.“
— Hillary Clinton American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady 1947
„I do support direct action. I do not advocate or support violence.… Elections are not a viable means of ensuring democratic change in Russia. Therefore I do support using other methods to push for a change back towards democracy“
— Boris Berezovsky, Bloomberg News (13 April 2007) Russia Demands Berezovsky Extradition After Call for Revolution http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aTJX3NiO.sR0&refer=europe
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„Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.“
— Benazir Bhutto 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan 1953 - 2007
Context: Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should... come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value — democracy.
Speech at Harvard University (1989), as quoted in "Born leader who lived and died by her unfailing conviction" in The Scotsman (28 December 2007) http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/world/-Born-leader-who-lived.3624495.jp
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„Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise.“
— Tony Benn British Labour Party politician 1925 - 2014
In New Politics (1970).
„If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.“
— Bernard Crick British political theorist and democratic socialist 1929 - 2008
A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 179.
„"We support the election process. We support democracy, but that doesn't mean that we have to support governments that get elected as a result of democracy." Bush commenting about the Palestinian elections that resulted in Hamas coming to power in the Gaza Strip. March 29, 2006“
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush" http://books.google.co.kr/books?id=1mEa-o1LGa8C, p.617
„No, I have not supported that, and I don’t see my position on that changing.“
— Rudy Giuliani American businessperson and politician, former mayor of New York City 1944 - 2001
When asked if he supported a ban on partial-birth abortion, as quoted on CNN's Inside Politics (2 December 1999)
„I think it's time, not for the to change their name but for the Democratic Party to change its name. Because all you have to do is go online and look up the history of the Democratic Party. It's one of oppressing African-Americans. It's one of supporting slavery and the horrors that occurred in the United States.“
— Louie Gohmert American politician 1953
„In the future I will focus on improving the economy, making big changes to win back the support from the public.“
— Chen Shui-bian Taiwanese politician 1950
DPP Campaign speech, December 7, 2002
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„People always say "Don't you support the troops?" But the troops are an entity that just follows orders. It's not about individuals or people. So when I say "I don't support the troops", I'm saying I don't support the bankers and politicians who are making them do what they do.“
— Patrice O'Neal American stand-up comedian, radio personality, and actor 1969 - 2011
May 10, 2011
„Both those men are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them.“
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
In reference to Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in an Oval Office interview http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/01/bush.cheney.ap/, one week prior to accepting Rumsfeld’s resignation (November 1, 2006)
„I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!... The stupid fool is a zealot, a warrior, and a clever one. But he doesn't accomplish anything.“
— Muammar Gaddafi Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist 1942 - 2011
Remarks quoted in Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief (1987) by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 110
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„Child support should do just that – support children, not the federal government.“
— Paul Ryan American politician 1970
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„I think that the only way that we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russia to diplomatically bring that at an end. But when we’ve aligned ourselves with — when we’ve supported the opposition of the. And then the fact that we’re also supporting the Kurds and this is — it’s just — it’s just a mess. And that this is the result of regime change that we end up supporting. And, inevitably, these regime changes have led a less-safe world.... That has to be the solution, is joining hands with Russia to bring — to bring this civil war to an end.“
— Gary Johnson American politician, businessman, and 29th Governor of New Mexico 1953
„Of course [the opposition] can be supported! I mean, for God’s sake, from Solidarity in Poland to the ANC in South Africa… there was a great degree of support. But they [the Poles and South Africans] did it. It was not some foreign country doing it.“
— Reza Pahlavi Last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran 1960
As quoted by Emily Esfahani Smith, Pahlavi's Hope for a Better Iran http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/pahlavis-hope-better-iran, The Weekly Standard, Feb 18, 2010.
