John Delaney Quotes

… because … gerrymandering makes the districts less competitive, candidates are freed to pander to their bases while ignoring moderate and independent voters. More ever, politicians who do not pander face primary challenges from ideologically purer candidates.

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

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

First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics…

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible for our government's ineffectiveness and gridlock.

Americans hate Congress but can't help ourselves from re-electing its members over and over again.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.

The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff.

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

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.

You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

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

Politics is broken.

American politics shows again and again that the best explanation is an accusation.

America doesn’t need a third party; it needs a second one.

It has become a cliché that voters no longer choose their legislators. The legislators choose their voters.