political regression Quotes

Liberal democracy is in regression all over the world, and it's a dangerous thing.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

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

It would indeed be fortunate for Mexico if a new era of PRI presidencies were a sign of healthy rotation in power rather than a regrettable step backwards.

We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even many existing democracies including in Europe have been becoming less democratic.

Donald Trump as a figurehead is the opposite of that - he's regression, he's taking a step backward.

Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence, one-man-one-vote. But is equality realistic? If it is not, to insist on equality must lead to regression.

We’ve reformed our representative democracy into the past.

I'm very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we've made.

Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy, is an historical regression. In it there is no more future for the public, or for the freedoms it supported, than there was under feudalism.

The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush.