Cards Quote by Richard Belzer

“The people are committed to ruinous policies, all without noticing. They have neither the experience nor the time to study all these laws and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over private citizens.…

— James Bovard

“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.”

— Giuseppe Prezzolini

“To suppress the vote is to make a mockery of democracy. And those who do so are essentially acknowledging that their policies are unpopular.…

— Dan Rather

Having a representative democracy requires the confidence of the voters in the system. And if voters lose confidence in the system they can make…

— Richard Painter

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the…

— Jim Bolger

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

— James Bovard

Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people

— Ron Holland

Governments are not representative.

— Noam Chomsky

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

— Anonymous

Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view, quite a…

— Jill Stein

Part of the reason voter suppression works is we've created this culture that says you don't challenge the outcome of elections unless the act…

— Stacey Abrams