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Madeleine Albright Quotes: I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
         

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.


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