Allowed Quote by Alex Gibney

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that has been…

— Jimmy Carter

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and…

— D. H. Lawrence

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right…

— Birch Bayh

We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once you've actually…

— Arundhati Roy

I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.

— Angus Deaton

The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are…

— Richard Grossman

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

— Imran Khan

The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans fought and…

— Bernie Sanders

Democracy without morality is impossible. Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and…

— Jack Kemp

A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing…

— Thomas Sowell