I think American is very democratic in allowing different…

“that sweet, unlimited democratic system, allowing plunder at the drop of a vote.”

— S.W. Southwick

A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through which the…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

American is the first democratic nation-state.

— Stephen Ambrose

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The…

— Al Gore

A lot of people are worried that many of our rights and privileges we've come to expect as part of the American democratic process…

— Ezra G. Levin

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

— Elijah Cummings

I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me.

— Yves Saint Laurent

I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise…

— Ines de La Fressange

I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business.

— Gianni Versace

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

— Hedi Slimane

Couture is also a term used for top-of-the-range, to-order clothing - but not to the level of intricacy and expense as haute couture. And…

— Dawn O'Porter

I have a very haute couture way of working.

— John Galliano

Only the fat-cat corporations can really afford to put on two mega-ready-to-wear shows a year, or four if you add two haute couture shows,…

— Suzy Menkes

Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he…

— Christian Dior

Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

— Olivier Theyskens