We didn't move here so I could save American democracy. But I've embraced it with the zeal of a convert. — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
“American democracy rests on a foundation of competing tensions among local, state, and federal laws,” — Ted Koppel 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
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If Republican leaders are willing to enable Trump's autocratic enthusiasms in return for oligarchy, American democracy will die. — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy. — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the… — Willie Herenton Copy Share Image
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don't think it is a certainty that we're headed toward Putin's Russia, as some commentariat… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The peaceful transfer of power is a central tenet of American democracy, and Connecticut stands ready to aid in the protection of… — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Do I think that American democracy ends if Trump is president? No! I think, there are plenty of checks and balances in… — Malcolm Gladwell 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
“For all my concerns, though, watching the Women’s March, I couldn’t help but be swept up in the joy of the moment… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, you have to be yourself, you have to say and stand for what you believe in,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“A caste society,” wrote U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel 25 years ago, “violates the style of American democracy.… The nation in… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an… — Theda Skocpol Copy Share Image
“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“I can't help but recall, at this point, a horribly elitist but very droll remark by one of my favorite writers, the… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“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
“Needless to say, this fragile experiment began by taking for granted the ugly conquest of Amerindians and Mexicans, the exclusion of women,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“They know that as long as they keep us undereducated, or with an inferior education, it’s impossible for us to compete with… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Political violence has no place in Pennsylvania - the birthplace of American democracy - nor anywhere else across this country. — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
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