Committees Quote by Charles Frankel

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

— Ted Yoho

There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.

— Rush Limbaugh

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're…

— Ramsey Clark

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in…

— Jose Saramago

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

— Frances Moore Lappé

In the United States the government has become less important. So, it's democracy, but as each year passes it seems that the government plays…

— Will Oldham

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

— Rush Limbaugh

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a…

— Fisher Ames

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

— James Bovard

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power…

— Robert Caro