American Democracy Quotes - Page 2

• A raíz de la decisión del Tribunal Supremo sobre Citizens United, la democracia estadounidense se está viendo socavada por la capacidad de los hermanos Koch y otras familias multimillonarias. Estos ricos contribuyentes pueden literalmente comprar políticos y elecciones gastando cientos de millones de dólares en apoyo de los candidatos de su elección. Tenemos que anular Citizens United y avanzar hacia la financiación pública de las elecciones para que todos los candidatos puedan presentarse a las elecciones sin estar en deuda con los ricos y poderosos.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Brother, Powerful

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• I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Stupid, Party

  Fuente: www.sfgate.com

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• If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.

  Irving Kristol

  Democracy, Quality, Care

  Irving Kristol (1983). "Reflexiones de un neoconservador: mirando atrás, mirando adelante", Basic Books (AZ)

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• The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

  Arundhati Roy

  Media, Democracy, Pillars

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Si soy elegido presidente, tendré una prueba de fuego en cuanto a mi candidato a juez del Tribunal Supremo. Y el candidato dirá: vamos a revocar esta desastrosa decisión sobre Citizens United porque esa decisión está socavando la democracia estadounidense. No creo que a los multimillonarios se les deba permitir comprar políticos.

  Bernie Sanders

  Creer, Justicia, Decisión

  "Transcripciones de Face The Nation 10 de mayo de 2015: Huckabee, Sanders, Gingrich". CBS News "Face The Nation" con Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. 10 de mayo de 2015.

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• We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed

  John Ashcroft

  Democracy, Way, Changed

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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

  Mistake, Self, America

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• Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

  Alex Gibney

  Sneakers, Democracy, Fundamentals

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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.

  J. Stalin

  Democracy, May, Sides

  Fuente: www.marxists.org

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• The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.

  Arlen Specter

  Numbers, Democracy, Weapons

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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.

  Laurie Garrett

  Giving Up, Despair, Democracy

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• La democracia estadounidense está zozobrando como consecuencia del enorme aumento del número de dependientes del Gobierno y de empleados públicos.

  James Bovard

  Government, Numbers, Democracy

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.133, Macmillan

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• Necesitamos una agenda muy progresista y fuerte para atraer a la gente al proceso político, porque me preocupa mucho el futuro de la democracia estadounidense, donde tanta gente se está rindiendo.

  Bernie Sanders

  Strong, Giving Up, People

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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

  Kids, Choices, Political

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• The question is, how do you stop the power elite from doing as much damage to you as possible? That comes through movements. It's not our job to take power. You could argue that the most powerful political figure in April of 1968 was Martin Luther King. And we know Johnson was terrified of him. We have to accept that all of the true correctives to American democracy came through these movements that never achieved formal political power and yet frightened the political establishment enough to respond.

  Chris Hedges

  Kings, Jobs, Powerful

  Entrevista con David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. 14 th Of July de 2011.

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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

  Country, Wall, Views

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.

  Michael Scheuer

  Islamic, Years, Knowing

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Democracy, Climate

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

  José Stalin

  Democracy, Soviet

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• That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I don't identify with the local group, no matter what it is, whether it's the human species or the American democracy, the nation, the country, religions, political parties, nothing. None of these have my allegiance because I'm not really concerned with what they do. I don't feel a part of any of this.

  George Carlin

  Country, Party, Political

  Source: mikestarling.weebly.com

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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.

  Julie Delpy

  Jobs, Blow, Giving

  "indieWIRE INTERVIEW | “2 Days in Paris” Director Julie Delpy". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. August 8, 2007.

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• Franklin puede ser considerado uno de los padres fundadores de la democracia estadounidense, ya que ningún gobierno democrático puede durar mucho tiempo sin conciliación y compromiso.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Padre, Gobierno, Largo

  Samuel Eliot Morison, Emily Morison Beck (1977). "Historiador marinero: lo mejor de Samuel Eliot Morison".

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• La supervivencia de la democracia estadounidense depende menos del tamaño de sus ejércitos que de la capacidad de sus ciudadanos individuales para confiar... en la fuerza de su propio pensamiento.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Strength, Army, Survival

  Lewis H. Lapham (2004). “Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy”, p.1, Penguin

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• La democracia estadounidense es un juego de ajedrez en el que los peones se imaginan que son individuos libres con voluntad propia: esa ilusión es una de las reglas del juego, sin la cual la partida no podría continuar. Dudo que alguien, por muy agudo y perspicaz que sea, consiga transmitir a los estudiantes de secundaria lo vital que es una mente aguda para mantener el control sobre la propia vida y los propios ingresos en nuestra política y economía mendaces. No es de extrañar que nuestro sistema escolar se dedique con devoción a desmoralizar y embotar esas mentes.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, School, Games

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• They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice. This is American democracy and those of you who are familiar with it know that in America democracy is hypocrisy. Now, if I’m wrong, put me in jail; but if you can’t prove that democracy is not hypocrisy, then don’t put your hands on me.

  Malcolm X

  Hands, America, Jail

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