We have this vibrant, representative democracy, but sometimes we're afraid to take risks because we want to get re-elected.

我们拥有充满活力的代议制民主，但有时我们害怕冒险，因为我们想连任。

You can build a truly representative democracy with more facts than lies, less money and more people in the voting process.

你可以建立一个真正的代议制民主， 让事实多于谎言，用更少的钱让更多人参与投票。

I would advocate for more of a direct democracy, not a representative democracy, and laws that are short enough for people to understand.

我会提倡更多的直接民主，而不是代议制民主，以及简短到足以让人们理解的法律。

Heavily influenced by French philosophers like Rousseau and Voltaire, and British philosophers like Hobbes and Locke, as well as by the Iroquois Confederacy and its ideas of representative democracy.

深受卢梭和伏尔泰等法国哲学家、霍布斯和洛克等英国哲学家以及易洛魁人联盟及其代议制民主思想的影响。

(Applause) Representative democracy should be tempered by participatory democracy so that we can refine our political choices, and that choice should be exercised as much as possible at the local level.

（掌声） 代议制民主应该通过参与式民主来调和，这样我们就可以完善我们的政治选择，而且这种选择应该尽可能地在地方层面上进行。

Burke's defence of representative democracy is stirring: he told Bristol voters, “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”

他告诉布里斯托尔的选民，“你们的议会代表应该回报你们的，并非勤勉，而是他的判断力。如果他牺牲了自己的判断而依附你们的观点，那才是背叛而非效劳。”