Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the…

— Harold Washington

The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure - and among the most scrutinized - in American history.

— Jamelle Bouie

As the most radical agenda in American history comes through the 117th Congress, the Whip Team will play an important role in making sure…

— Ronny Jackson

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

— Michael Baumgartner

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American…

— Okieriete Onaodowan

Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.

— Colson Whitehead

“I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt…

— Mark Doty

The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

— Rush Limbaugh

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

— Jim Walsh

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.

— Lisa Murkowski

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

— Jerry Brown

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

— Walter E. Williams

Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it…

— Anonymous

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing…

— Aristophanes

Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it…

— Al Franken