Change Quote by Anne Applebaum

From climate change to the gun violence epidemic, our nation faces many pressing problems. We - the President and Congress - were elected to…

— Dean Phillips

“I am a congenital optimist about America, but I worry that American democracy is exhibiting fatal symptoms. DC has become an acronym for Dysfunctional…

— Graham Allison

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It's not working and we need it working again. It's not going to get fixed by people who…

— Zephyr Teachout

It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are…

— David Harsanyi

Americans need to be engaged and invested in the legislative process that affects their daily lives, otherwise we are just democracy in name only.

— Harris Faulkner

I know it may be hard to imagine given how broken and gridlocked our politics truly are, but from the White House to, yes,…

— Valerie Jarrett

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

— Madeleine Albright

Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state…

— Noam Chomsky

I think that the influence of people with power and money to distort democracy and have their interests served before the rest of the…

— Shepard Fairey

Democracy .. is like taking a shit and hold again while

— Mattias Konradsson

Democracy is messy.

— Ted Lieu