American democracy Quote by Richard Grossman

Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't…

— Ramsey Clark

Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica…

— Gore Vidal

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

But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across the ocean…

— Colin Powell

But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those…

— Frank Carlucci

In America, we do not have a democracy. It's not what we have. We have a representative republic and therefore the rules and regulations…

— Rush Limbaugh

We would like the rest of the world to look up to American democracy. So when there is this kind of folly taking place,…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

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

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not…

— Bob Avakian

There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.

— Rush Limbaugh

The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a…

— Noam Chomsky