What's historically been referred to as 'gerrymandering'…

Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are…

— Bill Nye

Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had…

— Jeffrey Toobin

We always look at gerrymandering and what it has done to voting in America, but what I realized the other day is that the…

— Trevor Noah

It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want.…

— Gene Weingarten

Fighting gerrymandering is one thing. The other thing is insuring we have the right candidates for the people and not the right candidates for…

— Ilhan Omar

“We have already described the gatherings of the popular comitia; but that clumsy assembly in sheep pens does not convey the full extent to…

— H.G. Wells

“Gerrymandering isn’t just a recent phenomenon, though; the word was coined in 1812 when Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry went to such egregious lengths to…

— Dan Rather

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

— Barack Obama

Since 2000, Republican policies have suppressed Democratic voting; since 2010, Republican gerrymandering has given the Republicans a heavy systematic advantage in Congress; and the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“She was from the wrong side of the tracks no matter how you gerrymandered the town.”

— James Lileks

California is among several states that already have fought their way out from under partisan gerrymandering by taking line-drawing authority away from the Legislature.

— Eric Swalwell

“Yes, the elections aren't free and fair. Yes, the 'first past the post' system, coupled with delineation of constituencies and gerrymandering, is a problem.”

— Brian Yap

“The Republican Party's gerrymandering efforts were also having unintended consequences. For years the party had poured resources into state legislatures in order to redraw…

— Mark Lilla

“the gerrymandering of 2010 had created what Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker called a “historical oddity.” Political extremists now had no incentive to…

— Jane Mayer

Gerrymandering is a problem, of course, and the Senate is built in a way that disadvantages Democrats. Unfair as it may be, voter participation…

— Jonathan Capehart