democracy Quotes

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media.

Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies.

One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses.

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.