Joe Lieberman Quotes

Any country is either becoming more democratic or less democratic. I think the United States hasn't tended to its journey toward democracy in a long time.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the American democracy is a representative form of democracy.

With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

Nothing can destroy democracy in America faster than a political-military crisis.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

A republican is someone who defends public institutions and democratic values, someone who is a defender of public life, someone who respects the principles of liberty, so in that sense we are very calm and at ease.

Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace.

We are actually experiencing a dismantling of democracy. I didn’t think this was possible.

Washington is broken but America still works.

We're a robust democracy here. That's the wonderful thing about this country.

We used to fight for democracy. Democracy used to matter. We now treat it with contempt. We have turned our backs on values that we built up over hundreds of years, for the benefit of politicians in Europe. To me, that is heartbreaking.

Trump is an anathema to America's democracy and values.

I probably will not live to see Turkey become an exemplary democracy, but I pray that the downward authoritarian drift can be stopped before it is too late.

I don't think we should be undermining our democracy.

Whenever democracy has fallen into a crisis, the Korean people have sprung up in rage.

We have to protect our democracy.

Our democracy cannot be left in the hands of those who would rather watch or participate in a train wreck than stop it.