All kinds Quote by David Lloyd George

Proportional representation is as British as first-past-the-post.

— Mehdi Hasan

Our political system encourages that. We don't have proportional representation. There's little renewal in our political class and it's always the same faces. There's…

— Emmanuel Macron

The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body…

— James Madison

Many Americans do not realize that we could institute proportional representation for most elections in the U.S. without amending the Constitution. In helping to…

— John Anderson

My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.

— Pramila Jayapal

In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal…

— John Stuart Mill

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

— Noam Chomsky

What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make…

— Edward Said

We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation.

— Charles Kennedy

A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political…

— Vladimir Lenin

“Where democracy – as an evident necessity – has to be organized through representation, actors coincide with groups-interests. In a representative democracy the interests…

— Leo Klinkers

It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

— Ralph Nader