America Quote by Rush Limbaugh

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

I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives.…

— Lawrence Lessig

Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

The presidential campaign was oriented toward the way we elect the presidency, Electoral College, not the popular vote. The popular vote doesn't matter. This…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Rush Limbaugh

If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that develop alternative…

— Henry Giroux

It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances on it.…

— Rush Limbaugh

“When we think of Communism,” read a sign at the conference, “we think of the Iron Curtain. BUT when THEY think of democracy, they…

— Gary Taubes

And for those of us who have, you know, looked in sort of the established order of the political fray over the course of…

— Ben Domenech

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

Capitalism, in my estimation, is not about democracy. I think we're beginning to see an understanding of this. We see it in the Black…

— Henry Giroux

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big…

— Anonymous