Better Quote by Ari Melber

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

— George Will

“The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more speech, and so…

— Timothy Snyder

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

— Rick Perry

Public financing would fix campaign donor problems.

— Hillary Clinton

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding…

— Albert Einstein

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power…

— Robert Caro

The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.

— Mark McKinnon

If people are going to donate huge sums of money to influence elections, we have the right to know who is donating, and this…

— Elissa Slotkin

The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial…

— Bradley A. Smith

One of the greatest challenges of democracies today is the question of financing campaigns. It's a tremendous challenge. Obviously I think the solution is…

— Jose Angel Gurria

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

— John Lanchester