Robert Dallek Quotes

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

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.

Our nation is not a fully representative democracy if we do not have a one-person, one-vote method of directly electing our president. It disproportionately tilts favor to smaller states with smaller populations.

If the Election be made by the People in large Districts, there will be no danger of Demagogues.

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.

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

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

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

Election victories increasingly depend on factors other than who votes, or tries to vote, and for whom. In 2000, the presidency was awarded by the Supreme Court, pre-empting the count of thousands of Florida votes.

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.

The way to help this country is to limit Republican power.

In America you elect the electoral college and they select the President. In Russia, the people select the President directly. This is more democratic.

The Electoral College is an antidemocratic relic.

... elections are no longer representative.

We will soon know whether the Supreme Court choose the President of the United States or the people of Florida chose the President.

There will be a new president in this country someday, and I have as good a chance as anybody.

The American House of Representatives today is a complete travesty upon representative government, upon popular government, and upon government by the majority.

Since 2000, Republican policies have suppressed Democratic voting; since 2010, Republican gerrymandering has given the Republicans a heavy systematic advantage in Congress; and the last two Republican presidents have won the White House while losing the popular vote to their opponents.

After Trump, how can we credibly say that our process for choosing a national leader yields the best possible result, or even someone capable of uniting the country, let alone running it?

Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.

Donald Trump went through the process, he earned the vote, and I am not in support of overturning the will of the voters.

The Electoral College needs to go, because it's made our society less and less democratic.

I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college.