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I have always believed that transparency is critical to a functioning democracy.

— Debra Bowen

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As a member of Congress, I will make creating jobs priority number one.

While I believe government should be as transparent as possible, I also believe people deserve to live free of fear or harassment.

A pioneer in open government reform, election integrity, and personal privacy rights.

Democracy doesn’t work if people can’t trust the system that they use to cast ballots.

I support full marriage equality and have done so very publicly and very vocally for more than a decade.

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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