Michael Bennet Quotes

We did not have a revolution in order to have a democracy.

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.

We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

Our new government is now in full Operation, but how it will move or what will be the End of it I can scarcely conjecture. I am not yet in Love with it, & I doubt if I ever shall be

We’ve reformed our representative democracy into the past.

We Republicans came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.

The culture of a revolution is not necessarily compatible with the culture of a Constitutional Democracy

I am for "Peace, retrenchment, and reform," the watchword of the great Liberal party thirty years ago.

The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.

In the democracy we live in today, it takes crisis to get the politics moving.

Nationalism has nothing to do with democratic values: Authoritarians can be nationalists; indeed, most are.

Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they're successful; most times, they're not. But the system has rebalanced toward the basic principles of tolerance, freedom and democracy that were set forth by the Founders.

That is what I want: I want a better Saudi Arabia. I don't see myself as an opposition. I'm not calling for the overthrow of the regime, because I know it's not possible and is too risky, and there is no one to overthrow the regime. I'm just calling for reform of the regime.

We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket science. We've done it before successfully at the presidential level and tried it several places at the state level.

A lot of people don't believe that Kirk-Heitkamp is a real reform bill.

Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.

The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.

I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education.

In truth, the legacy that President Obama's agenda will leave on history is the poisoning of the tree of liberty.

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

I don't even think the biggest divide is between Republicans and Democrats. I think it's between institutionalists and reformers.

Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote.