John Anderson Quotes

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties

The system [in U.S.] is designed for a two-party system. And those two parties have an interest in keeping third parties out. There's too much of the structure that works in the two-party way. They will keep the third party out.

I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.

The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.

I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

I'm just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society's aspirations, politically. The key to it has to be some sort of proportional representation, which allows there to be more parties.

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

We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. "We have a single system," he wrote, and "in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses."

In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

There must not be a party monopoly on power.

Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government.

No free country has ever been without parties.

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

You don't feel you have the same voice in a presidential election if you live in a solid blue or a solid red state. I also don't think we've educated voters well on the different ways in which primaries work in different states. It doesn't need to be the case that you end up with one Democrat and one Republican, you have open primaries, you can have jungle primaries. There are various permutations and combinations of how to do this.

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

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

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.