“We like to keep separate the evils of our national past from the sacredness of our ideals. That separation allows us to… — Eddie S. Glaude Jr Copy Share Image
That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When I was sworn in, we had Republican-sponsored climate-change bills all over the place. You had John McCain running for President in… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Each generation in this country gets the responsibility of being the ambassadors for this American democracy that our parents and grandparents fought,… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I had a really unusual, remarkably unusual father because he, in our family, was the one that suffered the most. He was… — George Takei Copy Share Image
The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Far from an excess of majority rule, American democracy has seen the rise of minority rule, with efforts to entrench it in… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's easier for Europeans to give money to a movie that says a blow job is what brought down American democracy. — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
As a lawyer, as a former prosecutor, and as a son and grandson of foreign-service officers who tried to represent American democracy… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“The stench of deception permeates the air of our great American democracy--wretched.” — Will Leamon Copy Share Image
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Occupy did something fabulous. What Occupy made clear was that there is an inequality at the heart of American democracy that undermines… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
It was always presumptuous to expect Russia, an ancient nation-state and proud empire of distinct culture with a tradition of autocracy, to… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Not just for the U.S. Senate but it also means for school board and city council. We need to revitalize American democracy.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
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