Matt Groening Quotes

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

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

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

The crisis of democracy in the West is not the result of falling in love with another system. In Europe and America people who are disillusioned with democracy do not dream about the Chinese model or any other form of authoritarian rule. They do not dream about government that controls Internet and puts in prison those daring to disagree.

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.

We don’t even realize that we do not know who is running our country.

The fate of our democracy lies both in the hannds if the people and of the President

Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.

I vote, but I don't feel that I'm achieving much when I do.

We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt.

The Alternative Vote is sectarian and self-serving and it will not improve people's lives.

If we are competing in elections, it's because we believe in the popular vote and will be slaves to our constitution.

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.

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

Young people are tremendously frustrated because they don't see politics as changing anything. They see it as perpetuating a system that frankly doesn't work and no matter who you vote for things don't really change. Social media is where I think a bold message will wake them up. We saw that a little bit in the Occupy movement. Over the next three years, I think young people are going to wake up and be empowered.

Most people turn things like elections into a fetish and think it's the only way to go: if we just keep giving people the vote, that'll solve all our problems. In the end, that's just a silly, infantile notion.

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.