Country Quote by Allard K. Lowenstein

Try to un-gerrymander these districts so that you're not packing all the Democrats into one district, so you've got districts that are competitive, so…

— Collin Peterson

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

— Thomas E. Mann

Gerrymandering at its essence is supposed to be used to reflect the changing geography to ensure representation. But we know that politics gets involved…

— Wayne Messam

American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians.

— Timothy Morton

We have to end political gerrymandering in this country. We have to end it.

— Michael Bennet

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

First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.

— Gail Collins

“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

What's historically been referred to as 'gerrymandering' can more aptly be labeled an incumbent protection program.

— Letitia James

I think there are districts - a lot of them - where Donald Trump is deeply unpopular, and tying your opponent to Donald Trump's…

— Brian Schatz

In states where Republicans have gerrymandered themselves into nearly impenetrable legislative majorities, they have also taken steps to try to close the paths the…

— Jamelle Bouie

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