Acquiescence Quote by Mark Hertsgaard

As Americans we like to believe that we're loved in international politics or that people like what we're doing. But we also recognize that…

— Condoleezza Rice

America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.

— Newt Gingrich

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs…

— Shirin Ebadi

America may be a fallible democracy. But when the president sacrifices the national interest for his personal interest, we can show that unlike other…

— Tom Malinowski

Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We…

— Frank Zappa

Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important thing in…

— George Soros

The beauty of our democracy is that the final authority is not the president of the United States, but instead the American public through…

— Lee Zeldin

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

America is perhaps best viewed as an 'authoritarian democracy' within its own territory and as 'a global state' of a new kind when considered…

— Richard A. Falk

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active…

— Mohsin Hamid

Americans need to be engaged and invested in the legislative process that affects their daily lives, otherwise we are just democracy in name only.

— Harris Faulkner