Christopher Hitchens Quotes

When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is in them, that they are supposed to be the ones setting the agenda - if people believe this, they get very energized. Yeah, it's annoying to have this extra burden of saving the country.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

Discussion is the bedrock of American democracy.

Let us all work for the nation that is yet to be but which yet must be.

That’s one of the wonders of this country. Eventually, we live up to our ideals.

You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path...

The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote.

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

This is essential that we have a resurgence in democratic participation. And I don't mean big-D Democrat, I mean small-D democrat. I mean getting involved in your neighborhood, your community. This is no time to say, "I'm not into politics." This is a time to go headlong into the welfare of this nation.

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.

I believe in the principles that built America, I believe in the Constitution.

I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded.

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some of these third parties listeners, they've got to show up.

I want people to vote, I want them to pay attention. I want them to get up and go and vote and care about this country, inform themselves about the issues and I also want them to not vote for somebody just based on gender or race, based on qualification.

God bless the America we are trying to create.

[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.

I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.

I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.

From that viewpoint, America, free country, democratic country, so more opportunity. Still is more sort of Alive. This is my feeling.

If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.