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The Democracy is for People Amendment will stop corporations and their front groups from using their profits and dark money donations to influence our elections while reaffirming the right of the American people to elections that are fair and representatives that are accountable.

Ted Deutch

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Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.

Parker Palmer

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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

Ralph Nader

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Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

Alan Siegel

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If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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After the 1970s, when President Nixon's illegal campaign cash was used as a secret slush fund to pay for the Watergate burglary and cover-up, Americans have demanded to know where the money fueling our elections is coming from.

Eric Schneiderman

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People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Ann Landers

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I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

Klaus Kinski

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A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.

Adrian Cronauer

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Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

Marco Rubio

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The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

Peter Camejo

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We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

Rosie O'Donnell

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Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself.

Mimi Kennedy

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Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives.

Tomas Borge

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However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

Karl Liebknecht

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There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

Richard Dreyfuss

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If we were to have a presidential election in Europe it would be an event that would spark a huge interest in people from Lisbon to Helsinki, just like national elections. And it would create a completely different political setting in Europe.

Wolfgang Schauble

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Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people.

Jeff Sessions

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I don't sing very loud, which some people have given me trouble about, but we all have to figure out what our voices are, embrace that.

Gretchen Parlato

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