Bigs Quote by Lawrence Lessig

Everyone without extraordinary research skills ought to be able to know what is happening inside the government, how it operates, where their tax dollars…

— Mike Quigley

I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives.…

— Lawrence Lessig

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful…

— Abraham Lincoln

It's a uniquely American thing that we as individuals not relying on government but we as individuals pitch in to make our communities better.

— Neil Bush

The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. . . .…

— John Tyler

I think the systems that we have in place, which are run by local election officials, actually will be found to work very, very…

— Matthew Dunlap

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

— Noam Chomsky

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working…

— Joseph Stalin

We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.

— Pramila Jayapal

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with…

— Bill Gates

We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset.…

— Mike Lee