Autocratic Quote by Maggie Gallagher

Elites are inevitable in politics. That is how politics is going to work. The question is, are your elites responsible, public-spirited? Do they think…

— David Frum

Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

— Noam Chomsky

If democracy as we know it has to survive the elites have to regain their credibility. And they have to start by admitting that…

— Abhijit Banerjee

Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules - and…

— Winnie Byanyima

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

There's a lingering notion that elites continue to lead, and the masses will follow. This historic model of influence was predicated on the belief…

— Richard Edelman

The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society…

— Walter Lippmann

There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder…

— Thomas Friedman

I think there are different kinds of elites. I think there are venal elites, and self-interested elites, and selfish elites, and I think there…

— Thomas Friedman

Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state…

— Noam Chomsky

It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not…

— Victor Davis Hanson

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all…

— Noam Chomsky