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We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!

— Richard Trumka

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

— Meir Kahane

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

— John Redwood

If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.

— Ami Bera

We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

— Ted Deutch

We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.

— Jim Messina

What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do.

— Stan Laurel

Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.

— George Hamilton

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

— Noam Chomsky

✗Opposing Perspectives

We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.

— Kenneth Blackwell

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

— Gael Garcia Bernal