Favorite Quotes and Jokes About Democracy, Government and Civic Engagement

"The American Republic will endure until the politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money."
     - Alexis de Tocqueville, author of "Democracy in America," (1835, 1840)

"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something."
     - Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1981 - 2005)

"What the people want is very simple -- they want an America as good as its promise."
     - Barbara C. Jordan
     Lawyer, U.S. House of Representatives from Texas 1973-1979
     First African-American Keynote Speaker, Democratic National Convention 1976

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