American democracy Quote by Jonathan Chait Download Open image “I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump.” — Jonathan Chait ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare American democracy Democracy Structure Trump Worry
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
I do think that our democracy is so great, we can withstand even a candidacy of Donald Trump. And when we emerge from this,… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
What worries me most about Trump, other than all of the other crazy things, is that I believe that he wants power and I… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2016 and warned of Trump. America has survived for almost 250 years with its… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm deeply concerned. And I think, in many ways, the Trump presidency poses a clear and present danger to our country and to the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I think some people have blind faith in American institutions without knowing a whole lot about them and think they will stand up to Donald Trump and are indestructible. I actually think democracy is not a definable and achievable state. Any country is either becoming more democratic or less democratic. I think the United States hasn't tended to its journey… — Masha Gessen 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
In public, Barack Obama's giving the simple version of his beliefs for the mass public. In private, he can discuss it at a really… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Because many people remembered a time when the Republican Party was not so extreme, and hadn't full grasped how much it had changed, people… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how difficult it… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
It's possible that the clowning and the buffoonery and the entertainment are a bigger part of what's happening than we've allowed. And that Trump… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
It's pretty clear that Hillary Clinton was a deeply, deeply flawed alternative. She had the wrong combination of the internal political chops to muscle… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party. — Jonathan Chait 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 Jackson had… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have… — Charles R. Chamberlain Copy Share Image
This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a serious matter.… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they spread their… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be… — Brian Stelter Copy Share Image
“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
As a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, American democracy is being undermined by the ability of the Koch brothers and other… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against… — Sheldon Whitehouse 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
The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice.… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. They're troublemaking efforts. They're… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
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