We go about the world, fighting to spread democracy and tell them how to live, but we really don't have a democratic system... The laws have been made to make it very difficult, because the Republicans and the Democrats aren't looking for the competition, they want to monopolize it. So in many ways, we are less democratic than some other systems, where they have multiple parties, and more people represented than they're able to be represented here.
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Interview by Laura Knoy on NHPR, June 5, 2007
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“We go about the world, fighting to spread democracy and tell…” Ron Paul. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-29DAFA1528. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/29dafa1528
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