American democracy Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

— Jill Stein

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our…

— Paul Wellstone

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever…

— Ronald Reagan

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of…

— Al Gore

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very…

— Peter Singer

Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of…

— Thomas L. Dumm

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a…

— Zephyr Teachout

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

In America, the system itself of democracy is being threatened.

— Barbara Boxer

I think that the influence of people with power and money to distort democracy and have their interests served before the rest of the…

— Shepard Fairey