Democracy Quote by Jill Stein Download Open image “It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.” — Jill Stein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Destroying Economic Elites Mingling Political Politics
It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped America of its wealth and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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 seen, let's say, what's happening in India and the United States - that this model of US economics packaged in a carton that says "democracy" is being forced on countries all over the world, militarily if… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
According to a recent Harvard study, $6 trillion, when you include the ongoing healthcare expenses for our wounded soldiers, which is the least they… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say it's a done deal yet, by any means. I think there are a lot of people who feel like their lives… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
To my mind, to say that says to young people "and you probably are not going to get out of debt, and you probably… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
For ISIS, the answer is to cut off their food, their water, their armaments, you know, and their funding. I don't mean literally their… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
They [Democrats] are not just going up, they are accelerating on their way up. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I don't want to revisit history or try to re-interpret it, you know, but starting from where we are now, given the experience that… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I am not an expert on the Clinton Foundation, so, you know, I don't want to pass judgment on it. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
We will not really address our foreign policy and these endless wars that show no end in sight and seem to be getting deeper… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image