Campaign finance Quote by Shepard Fairey

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.

— Jesse Helms

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population once enslaved…

— Howard Zinn

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding…

— Albert Einstein

Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most people's daily…

— Brad Pitt

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

There are a lot of problems with democracy. We need to think about how to find the people most qualified for the job.

— Frankie Boyle

Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in…

— Matt Taibbi

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their…

— Barack Obama

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their…

— Donald Tsang