Answers Quote by Lawrence Lessig

I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do…

— Lawrence Lessig

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

— Pramila Jayapal

Democracy is a series of choices.

— Paul Ryan

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

— Rick Perry

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

— Edward Abbey

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

I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most Americans would…

— Lawrence Lessig

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct…

— Moby

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

— Dick Gephardt

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

— Madeleine Albright

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

— James Bovard

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final…

— Dmitry Medvedev