I worry about the entire structure of American democracy…

“The mere consciousness of an engagement will worry an entire day”

— Charles Dickens

Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things.

— Svetlana Alexievich

“The ability of a free and independent press to hold political leaders accountable is what makes open government possible—it is the heartbeat of democracy.…

— Madeleine K. Albright

American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don't think it is a certainty that we're headed toward Putin's Russia, as some commentariat does. But…

— Jonathan Chait

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

This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a serious matter.…

— Michael Gerson

This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have…

— Charles R. Chamberlain

Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not…

— Bob Avakian

The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the…

— Jean Ziegler

“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they…

— Wynton Marsalis

As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers and other…

— Bernie Sanders

If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against…

— Sheldon Whitehouse