American people Quote by Lewis H. Lapham

In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated…

— Bernie Sanders

“Oligarchy: Rule by the few, usually the richest One Percent. In Aristotle’s political theory, oligarchy is the stage into which democracy evolves, and which…

— Michael Hudson

When I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a sense that history was on a straight path toward democracy everywhere.…

— Zephyr Teachout

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

— Pat Robertson

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than…

— Bernie Sanders

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.

— Tom Metzger

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life…

— Tony Judt

Three times before, in the 1850s, the 1890s, and the 1920s, oligarchs took over the American government and threatened to destroy democracy. In each…

— Heather Cox Richardson

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

E.U.-U.S. ties are deeper than any change in politics.

— Federica Mogherini

The United States has larger enclaves than one might suspect of communities that have simply never engaged with anyone different than themselves or anyone…

— Asia Kate Dillon

More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt