"So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy"
- Carol Moseley Braun
About this Quote
Carol Moseley Braun is emphasizing the value of having a Congress and government that is representative of individuals. She believes that in order to accomplish this, we have to attend to the current project regulations that are stopping true democracy. She is suggesting that these regulations are obstructing of having a federal government that looks like America as well as is representative of the people. She is advocating for reform of the current project regulations in order to guarantee that the federal government is genuinely depictive of individuals. This would certainly permit a much more equitable and also reasonable representation of individuals in the government. By reforming the present project laws, we can ensure that the federal government is really depictive of the people and that it appears like America.
"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"