America Quote by Thomas E. Mann

We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half of Americans…

— Todd Young

I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are…

— Steve Earle

What other, newer democracies find relatively easy - conducting an election, the counting of votes, the peaceful transition of power - seems to have…

— Barkha Dutt

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of…

— David Brooks

Americans, as a rule, rarely compare themselves with other countries, so convinced are we that our system is superior, that our politicians are better,…

— Anne Applebaum

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force

— Vladimir Putin

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our…

— Paul Wellstone

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

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

— Donna Brazile

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

— Eldridge Cleaver

Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics, there's a…

— David Frum

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