Believe Quote by Shirley Chisholm

“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

Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It's not working and we need it working again. It's not going to get fixed by people who…

— Zephyr Teachout

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

— Alexander Woollcott

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less…

— Anonymous

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

— Pramila Jayapal

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

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

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

— Bella Abzug

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

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns.…

— Edward Abbey

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

— Allan H. Meltzer