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
Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Political violence has no place in Pennsylvania - the birthplace of American democracy - nor anywhere else across this country. — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr 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
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
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
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
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
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the… — Willie Herenton Copy Share Image
H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large… — Arlen Specter 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
“The enemy, however, is not the historically imagined enemy of brown or black youth, more often depicted as America's problem than as… — Patricia Hill Collins 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
“the fundamental problem facing American democracy remains extreme partisan division—one fueled not just by policy differences but by deeper sources of resentment,… — Steven Levitsky Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump should be delegitimized for many reasons. And his response to this hacking is also cause for delegitimization. But… — David Corn Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin is the bigger danger than Donald Trump because Trump can be dealt with within American democracy. There is an independent… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I… — George Carlin 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
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
“They know that as long as they keep us undereducated, or with an inferior education, it’s impossible for us to compete with… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, this fragile experiment began by taking for granted the ugly conquest of Amerindians and Mexicans, the exclusion of women,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Some might say what I’m recommending amounts to electoral nihilism. We would end up giving the presidency over to Republicans and their… — Eddie S. Glaude Jr Copy Share Image
I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy. — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
If Republican leaders are willing to enable Trump's autocratic enthusiasms in return for oligarchy, American democracy will die. — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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