“In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about. (August 17, 1992)”
Ronald Reagan
“America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote in a national election”
Bill Vaughn
“I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms”
Walt Whitman
“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”
Senator John Kerry
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle
“The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly”
Norman Thomas
