Sortition Democracy Quotes

#1. I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.

Jasper Fforde

#2. If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.

Suzanne Collins

#3. Warthogpox High School was the worst school in the city of Wyvernwing, and Harry Hames Moffer was its most infamous student.

Jacquel Chrissy May

#4. I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.

Elizabeth Hurley

#5. When you lose someone who's as close as your own skin, the only place you can find him again is hidden inside your memories.

Deborah Blumenthal

#6. I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?

Lawrence Lessig