FastSaying

The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy - they see themselves as fighting for the survival of civilization, after all.

Rick Perlstein

AfterAroundBeenCivilizationConstantDayDemocracyElectorateEnamoredEstimateFightingMccarthyMinorityNeverPercentPercentageReactionaryRelativelySeeSinceStatesSurvivalThemselvesUnitedUnited States

Related Quotes

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
— Karen Armstrong
DemocracyFriendsFundamentalists
More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.
— Elton Gallegly
HorsesIncreaseMore
As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.
— Marianne Williamson
CitizensDemocracyMagnificent
I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.
— Aaron Klein
AssaultBeenLiberal
The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.
— Chauncey Depew
AlwaysBeenGovernment