American democracy Quotes · Page 2

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

— Calvin Coolidge

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

— Archibald MacLeish

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

— Alex Gibney

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

— John Oliver

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

— Josh Shapiro

I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

— Gore Vidal

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.

— Chellie Pingree

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together,…

— Parker Palmer

American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into…

— J. Stalin

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is…

— Coretta Scott King

It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Michael Eric Dyson

The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of…

— Bernie Sanders

My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the…

— Willie Herenton

“The enemy, however, is not the historically imagined enemy of brown or black youth, more often depicted as America's problem than as…

— Patricia Hill Collins

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

— Michael Gerson

There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in…

— Bernie Sanders

I think Donald Trump should be delegitimized for many reasons. And his response to this hacking is also cause for delegitimization. But…

— David Corn

Vladimir Putin is the bigger danger than Donald Trump because Trump can be dealt with within American democracy. There is an independent…

— Garry Kasparov

“the fundamental problem facing American democracy remains extreme partisan division—one fueled not just by policy differences but by deeper sources of resentment,…

— Steven Levitsky

Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they…

— Heather Cox Richardson

That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I…

— George Carlin

“Politically speaking, the murder of John Brown would be an uncorrectable sin. It would create in the Union a latent fissure that…

— Victor Hugo

“In that war, the United States had created military forces so enormous as to defy description, yet now, when the nation’s greatest…

— Garrett M. Graff

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of…

— Cornel West

“It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials…

— Ron Wyden

“Needless to say, this fragile experiment began by taking for granted the ugly conquest of Amerindians and Mexicans, the exclusion of women,…

— Cornel West

“Some might say what I’m recommending amounts to electoral nihilism. We would end up giving the presidency over to Republicans and their…

— Eddie S. Glaude Jr

I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the…

— Jimmy Carter

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

— Masha Gessen

If Republican leaders are willing to enable Trump's autocratic enthusiasms in return for oligarchy, American democracy will die.

— Heather Cox Richardson

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

— Ambrose Bierce

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

— Thurgood Marshall

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

— William J. Clinton

I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump.

— Jonathan Chait

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

— Joseph Stalin

H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the…

— Ben Hecht