Top 1200 Democracy In America Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

America has always been my biggest audience, so I'm putting a lot of faith in America.

Now the dictatorship or call it the 'Indonesian regime', fully consolidated its power... You see, the West told Indonesians, indirectly of course, that 'democracy' is when you have several or many political parties, and people vote at least once in a while. But it is total nonsense. Democracy is when you vote and your vote can actually totally change the course of your nation.

America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.

What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?

A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

Our individual liberty is the very essence of America. It is what makes America unique.

Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption group based in Texas applauded the indictment. No jury can undo the outcome of Texas 2002 elections, ... but the justice system must punish those who criminally conspire to undermine democracy no matter how powerful they may be. If we are to be a democracy, then powerful politicians cannot flout such laws with impunity.

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

Trump's rhetoric is undermining America's credibility, undermining America's leadership and strength in Europe, even without him being president. The rhetoric itself is very damaging. Obviously, if you were to try to implement any of that rhetoric as president, it would be catastrophic for America's interests.

The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America.

I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large.

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

When Donald Trump says make America great again, we know whose America that is.

What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning of a long struggle for the institutions, values and infrastructures that make critical education and community the center of a robust, radical democracy. This is a challenge for young people and all those invested in the promise of a democracy that extends not only the meaning of politics, but also a commitment to economic justice and democratic social change.

Charleston was where America split apart in 1861. Maybe it's where America comes together in 2015.

Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

Apple does all of its research and development in America. It has all these brilliant people sitting in Silicon Valley. But until recently, Apple made nothing in America. Zero. And the jobs that were accessible to a good, well-trained worker that knew how to do welding or assembly, none of those jobs had stayed in America. We don't have the workforce.

It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.

President Obama's biggest advocates believe that Americans are ready to embrace his vision for the United States: a less muscular America on the world stage, an America with a more controlling executive branch and less conflict in the legislative branch, an America in which the government takes care of us, be we Pajama Boys or Julias.

I think the Democrats have - we really have failed to be in rural America, in the sense of having our leaders spending time talking to folks in rural America. The president Barack Obama has been there, but other than the president and vice president, we have had not a whole lot of conversation in rural America.

You see, we're America the Beautiful, not America 'Well, At Least She Has a Great Personality'.

There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

You know, this iPhone, as a matter of fact, the engine in here is made in America. And not only are the engines in here made in America, but engines are made in America and are exported. The glass on this phone is made in Kentucky. And so we've been working for years on doing more and more in the United States.

If we gotta fight and die for America, why should we be treated like slaves in America?

Donald Trump understood America. He animated America, and now he'll be the president of all Americans.

I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

Canada? Why would I want to leave America just to visit America, Jr.?

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

America remains the one indispensable nation. And the world needs a strong America.

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

Standing up for America, investing in America, will pay off.

There's something about America's sweetheart and America's bad boy. That juxtaposition is what everyone desires.

The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.

We need to think forward and keep making America greater. Not that old America, again.

No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver - no, not I. I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years under slavery. America took half of Mexico by force in the Mexican War. American foreign policy, the progressives say it's based on theft. Why? Because look, America is very active in the Middle East. Why? The Middle East has oil. Notice that America doesn't get involved in Haiti or Rwanda because they don't have any oil.

Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all. Men cannot exercise freedom in the political sphere when they are deprived of it in the economic sphere.

It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America

I think I probably have one of the easiest jobs in America. I get to run behind the best O-line in America.

The Western concept of democracy is based on the idea that the loser of an election has the possibility next time round of being the winner. But in the case of an ethnically or religiously divided country, in which minorities don't live peacefully together, this necessary balance can't be properly guaranteed by democracy. When each ethnic group arms itself, it is not surprising that the army of a new state is viewed by part of the population as an ideological militia.

For me, I love and hate Costco. I think it's ruined America and made America great.

America loves a forgiveness story. America is the land of second chances.

The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.

I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

A free press isn't the enemy of America; it's a big part of why makes America great.

We know a way now to make use of democracy, and we know how to change the attitude of people towards government, but yet the majority of people are without vision. We who have prevision must lead them and guide them into the right way if we want to escape the confusions of Western democracy and not follow in the tracks of the West.

The father of democracy is Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister after our independence, who was assassinated under conditions that to this day nobody can clearly understand. So, for me, this title is not the most important thing. You can go down in history as the father of democracy, but you can also go down as the person who brought about chaos just by stepping down.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

You make America great by making America available to a wide variety of people.

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist, in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government. It doesn't own you.