American Democracy

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or democracy:

“The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.”
—Chris Patten (b. 1944)