The stench of deception permeates the air of our great…

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

Political violence has no place in Pennsylvania - the birthplace of American democracy - nor anywhere else across this country.

— Josh Shapiro

The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice.…

— Stewart Udall

I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. They're troublemaking efforts. They're…

— Masha Gessen

“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is bound up…

— Jill Lepore

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this…

— Henry Adams

I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. The working theory behind…

— Masha Gessen