Jim Hightower Quotes

There's no place for a third party in the United States.

I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government.

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

There are but two divisions of party in the United States; and he is a very weak or very presumptuously vain man who can think of organizing a third party that shall rule them both.

If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

I think the post-Rick-Perry Texas is a Texas that is more competitive between the Democrats and Republicans. I think the Republicans still have a huge advantage, but I think if we're arguing that competition is good for the system, then I think a stronger two-party system in Texas is inevitable, and I think that it will happen.

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

There aren’t any independents anymore.

If you went to a parliamentary system for America, you would have 30 political parties develop overnight—maybe 50.

In America you've got a one party state except that you've got two of them.

I believe in the two-party system.

We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half of Americans are thrilled with the results; the other half are profoundly disappointed.

A great many of us have been concerned about the presidential nomination system... whether or not we have drifted into a system that simply doesn't work so well any more.

Fighting gerrymandering is one thing. The other thing is insuring we have the right candidates for the people and not the right candidates for the Party.

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.