Activist Quote by Don Aitkin

It is a tenet of representative democracy that MPs are not delegates for their constituents. This means that their decisions and actions are ultimately…

— Gina Miller

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

— Gilbert Highet

“Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for they are…

— Charles Dickens

When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their…

— John Stuart Mill

I think people everywhere have a very dismaying feeling that politics are going over their heads, are being decided by wealthy interests that don't…

— Alexander Stille

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making…

— Susan Sontag

“There are also those who delusively if not enthusiastically surrender their liberty for the mastermind’s false promises of human and societal perfectibility. He hooks…

— Mark R. Levin

Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the wishes of…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

— Howard W. Koch

If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

— Chrystia Freeland

I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as deliberative democracy.

— George Monbiot

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

— Charles M. Blow