Democracy 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

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

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

— Pramila Jayapal

The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half of Americans…

— Todd Young

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 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

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

We need to be constantly reminded that this is a representative democracy, and we need to be in tune to what people are talking…

— Ilhan Omar

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world, and it no longer is. Citizens cannot be guaranteed that…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

“As long as you have broad representation from many parts of society, representative government works extremely well. And it works even better when the…

— Ben Carson

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