Aaron McGruder Quotes

Politics is broken.

An alienated and indecisive electorate is destructive to our democracy.

Our polity has fallen down a dark hole into a place that is far from the vision and values of those who founded this democracy.

After 24 years in Washington, Senator Collins has become part of that broken system, putting special interests and her political party first. And Mainers know it and feel it.

We have a democracy of elections to elections. After winning an election, the parties become brazen and arrogant. They would do all wrong things and if you question them, they would say - why don't you change the government next time? But that would be five years later. What do I do right now? I am suffering right now.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson)

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

I know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

The political class has failed you.

There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Both parties are impossibly corrupt and the public thoroughly indifferent.

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Politics, as a body, has failed the people.

The worst of all states is the people's state.

We aren't living the gospel of democracy and free enterprise today. We are merely preaching it. We have made only half of the combination work, and we've done that superlatively well. Free enterprise booms. But democracy staggers and reels under oppressive debts and inordinate operating costs-both the consequences of political failure.

Democracy has generally failed in Africa because to much power, too often, was concentrated in the hands of too few.