Bad Quote by Richard Painter

The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body…

— James Madison

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

— Pramila Jayapal

Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

The American experiment with representative democracy has been a great success, but we need to realize that it needs to be a genuine representative…

— Richard Painter

In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick…

— George Will

Representative democracy is a remarkably blunt instrument. Hundreds of issues are bundled together at every election, yet the vote tends to swing on just…

— George Monbiot

Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

— Doug Larson

Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire…

— Alan K. Simpson

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.

— Rush Limbaugh

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