“I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.” BelieveIdeasEndsWould BeFightingLeftDemocracyBattleThreatFoolishEnterpriseAssaultComplacentErosionAmerican Author Author:Margaret Thatcher
“[Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an absolute assault on our democracy.” KnowsPartyDemocracyPositionAbsolutesDemocraticProgressivePartnershipAssaultDemocratic PartyTransPacific Author:Jill Stein
“There is nothing going on and in the meantime we do know that our democracy is under assault by the KGB. To me, that's something we ought to be talking about. That's a relevant issue in this campaign [2016].” KnowsTalkingDemocracyIssuesOughtCampaignsRelevantAssaultKgb Author:James Carville
“Why are you sitting here when our democracy is under assault with the FBI acting at the behest of [Republican Congressman] Jason Chaffetz and sitting here acting like it is something legit?” ActingDemocracyRepublicanSittingAssaultFbiJasonCongressmanLegit Author:James Carville
“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.” SaidDoneHouseGivenDemocracyNiceEventsRepublicanSittingPressesAssaultUnprecedentedNice ThingsAmerican Democracy Author:James Carville
“We ought to be talking about our democracy being under assault right now and what we're going to do about it and not what somebody said in July about James Comey. That's a distraction, that's not what's going on.” SaidTalkingDemocracyOughtRight NowDistractionAssaultJuly Author:James Carville