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• A eso se ha reducido la democracia estadounidense en estos ayuntamientos: ancianos y locos por las armas, una combinación terrible. Oí a alguien gritar "¡AK-47!" y una señora gritó "¡Bingo!".

  Bill Maher

  Gun, Ak 47, Nuts

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• Ha sido [la concentración de riqueza y poder] una amenaza para. . . democracia estadounidense.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Concentration Of Wealth, Political, Democracy

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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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Presidential, Humanity, Democracy

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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.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Historical, Democracy

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.70, Best Books on

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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.

  James Mattis

  Sick, Enemy, Democracy

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• No hay que mantener en vilo a la democracia americana. Porque, mira, demasiada gente ha marchado y protestado y luchado y muerto por esta democracia.

  Michelle Obama

  Gente, Democracia, Suspense

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• American democracy is really under attack here [Clinton campaign that was hacked]. And the question is how are we and in particular and how are Democrats going to respond to this. We have to understand this is really, really quite extraordinary. And it would seem to me that the FBI shouldn't be getting rolled by the House Republicans and that's what happened here.

  James Carville

  House, Democracy, Campaigns

  Fuente: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

  Al Gore

  Ideas, Democracy, Environment

  "In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "Morning Edition" with Audie Cornish, wksu.org. March 14, 2017.

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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.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Sacrificio, Hombres, Política

  "Get Mad as Hell About Citizens United and Register to Vote" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Es importante dirigirse a los jóvenes en la reapertura de Nueva Orleans. En la reconstrucción, revisemos el potencial de la democracia y la gloria estadounidenses.

  Wynton Marsalis

  New Orleans, People, Democracy

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• I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

  Gore Vidal

  Views, Democracy, Want

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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

  Thinking, Russia, People

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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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.

  Russell Simmons

  Sight, People, Democracy

  "Russell Simmons On Whitney Houston At Vivienne Tam". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

  John Oliver

  Funny, Democracy, Campaigns

  "John Oliver’s Campaign Ad Formula: F.L.A.G.S". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.

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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

  Nice, House, Democracy

  Fuente: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• No olvidemos que la democracia estadounidense empezó con "Nosotros el pueblo" acordando trabajar duro para crear "una unión más perfecta". Hemos perdido la idea de que la política empieza en casa, con lo que ocurre en las familias, en los barrios, en las aulas, en las congregaciones. Nosotros creamos esta democracia, y si queremos que esta democracia recupere sus valores más elevados, tenemos que ser nosotros quienes lo hagamos. Eso no sucederá si "Nosotros, el pueblo" no sabemos cómo hablar entre nosotros con civismo y mantener nuestras diferencias de forma creativa y vivificante.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Trabajo, Hogar, Ideas

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• Eso es lo que diferencia a la democracia estadounidense de los dictadores y gobiernos horribles de todo el mundo, y la razón por la que funciona es que tenemos un presidente que puede consultar con el Congreso antes de tomar grandes decisiones. Que no toma una decisión unilateral de entrar en un conflicto militar.

  Charles R. Chamberlain

  Military, Government, Iraq

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• Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon us are raising millions of dollars in fund appeals by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, Norman Lear's People for the American Way, and others who claim to believe that the religious Right is the greatest peril to American democracy since Joe McCarthy.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Cristiano, Religioso, Creer

  Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Cromartie, Ethics and Public Policy Center (Washington, D.C.) (1987). “Piety and politics: evangelicals and fundamentalists confront the world”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

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• Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by historian James Kloppenberg should therefore fascinate anyone interested in American politics or how ideas shape public life. Tracing the influences of Obama's family, educational, and work experiences on his ideas, Reading Obama locates a unique individual in the crosscurrents of American democracy and continuing fights over American ideals.

  Martha Minow

  Country, Powerful, Educational

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• H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.

  Ben Hecht

  Christian, Art, War

  Ben Hecht (1964). “Letters from Bohemia”

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• En el fondo, la opinión del Tribunal es, por tanto, un rechazo del sentido común del pueblo estadounidense, que ha reconocido la necesidad de evitar que las empresas socaven el autogobierno desde la fundación, y que ha luchado contra el potencial corruptor distintivo del electoralismo corporativo desde los días de Theodore Roosevelt. Es un momento extraño para repudiar ese sentido común. Aunque la democracia estadounidense es imperfecta, pocos fuera de la mayoría de este tribunal habrían pensado que entre sus defectos figuraba la escasez de dinero corporativo en la política.

  John Paul Stevens

  Gobierno, Ser, Personas

  "Citizens United contra la Comisión Federal Electoral, 558 U.S. 310". United States Supreme Court case No. 08-205, caselaw.findlaw.com. 21 de enero de 2010.

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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

  Expression, Democracy, Culture

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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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.

  Andy Borowitz

  Years, Two, Long

  "In Landmark Decision, Supreme Court Strikes Down Main Reason Country Was Started". Satire from The Borowitz Report, www.newyorker.com. May 05, 2014.

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• And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).

  Cornel West

  Reality, Persistence, Two

  Cornel West (2017). “Race Matters: With a New Introduction”, p.107, Beacon Press

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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.

  Herbert Croly

  Organization, Democracy, Woven

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.

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