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Democracy gives
every man the
right to be
his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell
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The American Republic
will endure until the day
Congress discovers that it
can bribe the public with
the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections
that are nearly always fictitious and managed
by rich landowners and professional politicians.
(Che Guevara)
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"IT'S NOT THE VOTING THAT'S DEMOCRACY;
IT'S THE COUNTING."
TOM STOPPARD
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"Democracy and socialism
have nothing in common
but one word, equality.
But notice the difference:
while democracy seeks
equality in liberty,
socialism seeks equality
in restraint and
servitude."
'*V. Alexis de Tocqueville
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"There can be no
daily democracy
without daily
citizenship.'
— Ralph Nader
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American Democracy,
Power, and Dissent
by Jim Hunt
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THE BEST
ARGUMENT
AGAINST
DEMOCRACY IS A
FIVE-MINUTE
CONVERSATION
WITH THE AVERAGE
VOTER.
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The winds that blow through the wide sky in
these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada
to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have
always blown on free men.
(Franklin D. Roosevelt)
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American democracy was born
of no theorist's dream; it was
not carried in the Susan
Constant to Virginia, nor in the
Mayflower to Plymouth. It
came stark and strong and full
of life out of the American
forest, and it gained new
strength each time it touched a
new frontier.
Frederick Jackson T Lgner
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OUR FORM OF
DEMOCRACY IS
BRIBERY, ON THE
HIGHEST SCALE.
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Gore Vidal
American Writer
1925 - 2012
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"The end of democracy and the
defeat of the American Revolution
will occur when government falls
into the hands of lending institutions
and moneyed incorporations.
Thomas Jefferson, 1816
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American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world. Votes: 3

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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The Americans' position is clear: we promote democracy. Votes: 2

Louis Susman
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Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own. Votes: 2

William Greider
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. Votes: 2

Bernardo Bertolucci
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Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed. Votes: 2

Melissa Bean
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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. Votes: 2

William Bennett
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The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. Votes: 2

Virginia Foxx
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy. Votes: 2

Dan Rather
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Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury. Votes: 2

John Oliver
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I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy. Votes: 2

Chellie Pingree
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms. Votes: 2

Barney Frank
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Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere. Votes: 2

Dinesh D'Souza
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China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories. Votes: 2

P. J. O'Rourke
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We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. Votes: 2

Alice Paul
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We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America. Votes: 2

Iqbal Quadir
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It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory. Votes: 2

Wynton Marsalis
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We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy. Votes: 2

James E. Rogers
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The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality. Votes: 2

Stewart Udall
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Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England. Votes: 2

Andrew O'Hagan
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I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over. Votes: 1

Rickie Lee Jones
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Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery? Votes: 1

Tatyana Ali
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If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible Votes: 1

Calvin Coolidge
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American democracy has been hacked. Votes: 0

Al Gore
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I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump. Votes: 0

Jonathan Chait
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I think the American people ought to take their democracy back. Votes: 0

James Carville
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The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa. Votes: 0

Joseph Stalin
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To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy. Votes: 0

Thurgood Marshall
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He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself. Votes: 0

William S. Paley
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I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy. Votes: 0

David Souter
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I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal
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We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed. Votes: 0

John Ashcroft
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Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing. Votes: 0

Dennis Kucinich
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American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other. Votes: 0

Joseph Stalin
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Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. Votes: 0

Robert Bork
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We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed Votes: 0

John Ashcroft
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If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship. Votes: 0

Irving Kristol
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Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers. Votes: 0

Alex Gibney
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American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees. Votes: 0

James Bovard
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This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy. Votes: 0

Condoleezza Rice
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It's easier for Europeans to give money to a movie that says a blow job is what brought down American democracy. Votes: 0

Julie Delpy
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I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised. Votes: 0

Susan Glaspell
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Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised. Votes: 0

Susan Glaspell
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That is not respecting our democracy, using the State Department as a concierge for foreign donations, not really respecting our American democracy. Votes: 0

Kellyanne Conway
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And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000. Votes: 0

William J. Clinton
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I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world. Votes: 0

Psy
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My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights. Votes: 0

Condoleezza Rice
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Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise. Votes: 0

Samuel Eliot Morison
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. Votes: 0

Noam Chomsky
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The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows. Votes: 0

Mary Parker Follett
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You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy. Votes: 0

Michelle Obama
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If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble. Votes: 0

Coretta Scott King
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American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other. Votes: 0

J. Stalin
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I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton
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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy. Votes: 0

Paul Wellstone
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The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue. Votes: 0

Andy Borowitz
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American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. Votes: 0

Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing. Votes: 0

Stephen Hadley
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The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson
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When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven. Votes: 0

Herbert Croly
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In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters. Votes: 0

George Will
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There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle. Votes: 0

Bill Moyers
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government. Votes: 0

Harold Washington
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There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy. Votes: 0

Zephyr Teachout
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The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character. Votes: 0

Helen Keller
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The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box. Votes: 0

Wesley Clark
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As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism. Votes: 0

Rose Wilder Lane
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Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy. Votes: 0

Richard P. Bland
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America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. Votes: 0

Mikhail Gorbachev
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A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Votes: 0

John Kenneth Galbraith
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My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the American democracy is a representative form of democracy. Votes: 0

Willie Herenton
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The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought. Votes: 0

Lewis H. Lapham
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When we are fighting for huge stakes - we're fighting for the future - future of the planet in terms of climate change. We're fighting for the future of American democracy. Votes: 0

Bernie Sanders
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Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded elections with billions of oily petrodollars from carbon tycoons. Votes: 0

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill
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Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We're proud that we have received four million individual contributions, more than any candidate in American history at this point. Votes: 0

Bernie Sanders
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Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact. Votes: 0

James Mattis
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We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the future of the American democracy where so many people are giving up. Votes: 0

Bernie Sanders
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Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs. Votes: 0

Jennifer Granholm
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It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake. Votes: 0

Laurie Garrett
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That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!' Votes: 0

Bill Maher
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It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy. Votes: -1

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians. Votes: -1

Russell Simmons
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American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.

Peter Ustinov
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American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world, and it no longer is. Citizens cannot be guaranteed that they can walk into a voting booth with any assurance that their vote will be counted.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Ben Carson and I don`t have much in common politically. But the fact is when you have kids getting involved in the political process, doing their best to elect the candidates of their choice, that`s what the American democracy is about.

Bernie Sanders
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What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs.

Rex Stout
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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 as tightly controlled within the walls of a corporation as they are in a totalitarian society.

Richard Grossman
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Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had to come further and go deeper into the pit of possibility of American democracy and of cultural expression.

Michael Eric Dyson
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American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don't think it is a certainty that we're headed toward Putin's Russia, as some commentariat does. But people need to mobilize and build up small-d democratic institutions to prepare against that eventuality.

Jonathan Chait
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You are sitting here defending an assault on American democracy. Somebody probably said nice things about anybody at a given point. This is an unprecedented event that was done at the behest of the House Republicans that was leaked to the press by the House Republicans.

James Carville
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I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use that kind of innovation to help usher in a new economy that doesn't rely on carbon-spewing fossil fuels.

Al Gore
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There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in my view, it is undermining American democracy and it is allowing Congress to represent wealthy campaign contributors and not the working families of this country.

Bernie Sanders
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Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses its concerns towards global issues and does not approach its own specific problems on the basis of, to some extend, self-induced fear.

Zbigniew Brzezinski
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For many, the American dream has become a nightmare. Votes: 3 Bernie Sanders

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Votes: 7 Winston Churchill

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