American democracy has been hacked.

There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of…

— Al Gore

American democracy is really under attack here [Clinton campaign that was hacked]. And the question is how are we and in particular and how…

— James Carville

That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I…

— Bill Maher

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

— Ambrose Bierce

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

— Mary Parker Follett

These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be…

— Brian Stelter

Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they spread their…

— Heather Cox Richardson

I was honored to serve as an elected official for twenty-four years of my life. But right now, I believe our democratic processes have…

— Al Gore

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

— Al Gore

A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what…

— Al Gore

I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use that kind…

— Al Gore

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give…

— P. J. O'Rourke

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the…

— David Lloyd George

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that…

— Isaac Asimov

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

— Mahatma Gandhi