American democracy Quote by Dennis Kucinich

The billionaires and their super PACs increasingly control the American political process. This is not democracy. This is not what brave Americans fought and…

— Bernie Sanders

Our entire political system is financed by wealthy private interests buying politicians and making sure the rules are written in their favor.

— Michelle Alexander

Democracy, of course, requires strong demands from the public.

— John Ralston Saul

The key to fixing public financing is to free politics from big money.

— Zephyr Teachout

Our democracy works because the parties air and debate their differences in public.

— Jack Schlossberg

“There are only two ultimate public powers in shaping and running American cities: votes and control of the money. To sound nicer, we may…

— Jane Jacobs

The beauty of our democracy is that the final authority is not the president of the United States, but instead the American public through…

— Lee Zeldin

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

If we, as individuals, want to keep control of our democracy - rather than have a government paid for by corporate interest checks -…

— Michael Bennet

One of the things I care about a lot is public financing in elections.

— Zephyr Teachout

American democracy depends on the public's ability to remain accurately informed on our state of affairs.

— Tom Steyer