Top 1200 Democracy In America Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

My vision of America is an America where everyone has a place, if you're willing to work hard, you do your part, you contribute to the community.

You can't have a democracy with an armed political party willing to bomb its neighbor without the consent of its government or, you know, just deciding, "Well, let's create enough chaos and discord by lobbing rockets. And so the reality is in order for Lebanon to succeed and we want Lebanon's democracy to succeed the process is going to the Lebanese government's eventually going to have to deal with Hezbollah.

In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

America's angry. America's scared. They want security from their country.

The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.

What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.

This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!" Homer Simpson

The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

Those who try to stifle the vibrancy of our democracy and shield policies from scrutiny behind a false cloak of patriotism miss the real value of what our troops defend and how we best defend our troops. We will ask questions and we will defend our democracy.

The Cowboys were never America's team any more than Anthony Weiner was America's congressman.

When you hear a lobby called Partnership for a Drug-Free America, just remember - they do not want a drug free America. They want an America free of drugs that are their competitors.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.

I think volunteerism in America generally is what makes America so special.

The reality is when you make 'America First' a bumper sticker and pump it overseas, what you're telling them is 'America Only'.

I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.

The vision Donald Trump has articulated to Make America Great Again means a stronger America at home and abroad.

To protect America's security, we are going to have to pull America's military out of the swamp of Washington politics.

Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.

I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chávez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.

I may live in liberal America, but I know that this is not the only America.

No black or white America-just United States of America.

I would adore to make up with the United States of America... Oh, America, what is the matter with you? Why couldn't you have been my friend?

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

Let us declare that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us. And together, with Hillary Clinton as our President, America, we will rise.

So I was thinking I go to America. I think that would work, conquering America. Because they're so upbeat and positive and polite.

America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.

Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning democracy.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate. And together we can move America forward with Barack Obama in the White House.

The people who typically tell the story of what's going on in America are from the booming parts of America. The presentation of issues is colored by that.

I see so many ways America uses to rob Negroes and it is sinful and America can't keep holding on, and doing these things.

I received a call from America after finishing 'Suspect', and I told them that I would go to America if things are ready.

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.

Donald Trump proved that he understood America in the way that those who say they're informing America simply did not.

Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.

Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best a more than usually safe form of political organization . . . . But if it is to work better as well as merely longer, it must have some leavening effect on human nature; and the sincere democrat is obliged to assume the power of the leaven. [Progressive]

When America's Newspaper of Record is nothing but a propaganda ministry, what is America?

I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it's the first place I'll go.

America's business leaders, large and small, must be a part of the solution to bridge America's skills gap.

It's going to take all of us rolling up our sleeves to make America the America that it must become.

I don't know what America has really learned. We are too quick to do what's expedient on behalf of our culture of greed and hedonism. We're quite prepared to go to conditions of tyranny in order to sustain that culture, and we do it in the name of democracy, when nothing could be more undemocratic. We do it in the name of saving the values of our society, when the way we behave corrupts those values. We do it in the name of God in whom we believe, when in fact we have corrupted our own vision of the Christian journey.

Make America great - to me... it's inclusion. Everybody in America, let's do it together, no matter what color you are. You're American. Let's figure it out.

There was a little less pressure to be fit on 'The Avengers' than 'Captain America.' I had just finished 'Captain America,' so I was already built. Plus, 'Captain America' has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. 'The Avengers' has not one shirtless scene.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.

I wanted so much to come to America and have America hear my music.

Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one poor - both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?