We didn't move here so I could save American democracy. But I've embraced it with the zeal of a convert. — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
“American democracy rests on a foundation of competing tensions among local, state, and federal laws,” — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“The stench of deception permeates the air of our great American democracy--wretched.” — Will Leamon Copy Share Image
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Each generation in this country gets the responsibility of being the ambassadors for this American democracy that our parents and grandparents fought,… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together,… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
When we are fighting for huge stakes - we're fighting for the future - future of the planet in terms of climate… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
“Above all, we cannot and should not try to distance ourselves from any of these inquisitions by reassuring ourselves that no abuse… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Not just for the U.S. Senate but it also means for school board and city council. We need to revitalize American democracy.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“For all my concerns, though, watching the Women’s March, I couldn’t help but be swept up in the joy of the moment… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Do I think that American democracy ends if Trump is president? No! I think, there are plenty of checks and balances in… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Bearing a banner of American democracy, the United States was, in other words, on the move — producing planes, tanks, and matériel… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an… — Theda Skocpol Copy Share Image
“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Politically speaking, the murder of John Brown would be an uncorrectable sin. It would create in the Union a latent fissure that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In that war, the United States had created military forces so enormous as to defy description, yet now, when the nation’s greatest… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
“I am a congenital optimist about America, but I worry that American democracy is exhibiting fatal symptoms. DC has become an acronym… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“Soft citizens of the American democracy learned to kick a man below the belt and make the bastard scream. ” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
American democracy depends on the public's ability to remain accurately informed on our state of affairs. — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
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