American is the first democratic nation-state.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote that I…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

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

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

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

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few…

— Annie Jacobsen

“a democratic nation can limp along even when its chief of state is widely understood to be a lazy, bumbling simpleton. Fallible leadership is…

— Timothy Ferriserris

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form…

— Eduardo Paes

The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in large measure by a single executive took a…

— Noah Feldman

It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is…

— Howard Zinn

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

— Geoff Mulgan

“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and…

— Hannah Arendt

Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The nation-state at best is based on the social contract that is also an emotional contract, stamped by the charisma of the past.” —SVETLANA…

— Brian Alexander