Charles Pinkney Quotes

America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

Conventions don't nominate people anymore. Primaries do.

I enjoyed Parliament being a proper elected MP.

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.

You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.

The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.

A caucus is basically an undemocratic method of selecting a candidate.

Nobody claims that every treaty is entitled to an up or down vote. Nobody claims that every proposed law is entitled to an up or down vote. Why is a judicial nomination entitled to an up or down vote? The Constitution gives the complete power to the Senate to set its own rule.

If a member of Congress doesn’t pay attention to process of reapportionment as the result of the census, he ends up being called “former Congressman.”

No one ever asserts that politics has no role in apportionment or redistricting.

In England, a Majority of Citizens does not elect the Majority of Representatives.

A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns: not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods.

Proportional representation, I think, is fundamentally counter-democratic.

I suggest that the executive appoint or nominate the Judges to the Senate which should have the right of rejecting or approving.

I think the trend to move towards caucuses and conventions, whether to nominate senators, governors or presidential nominees, I think the move towards caucuses and conventions is a very bad one, and that our party should reward those states that spend the time and money to have primaries.

We tend to think of the House as a less historically significant legislative body than the Senate. There are more representatives than there are senators, they're up for re-election every two years, and many come and go without having much of an impact.

I'm going to support the candidate that the voters chose. The voters get to choose who's best to represent them.

In the UK we have general elections roughly every four or five years because we know circumstances, situations and therefore opinions change over time.

Any of us who wants to go to Parliament must have that responsibility to represent the people who voted us in.

I was appointed to the Senate, and it has been my job to serve in the Senate and then to earn the vote of Minnesotans.

Democracy cannot be imagined without Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha, and they cannot be imagined without MPs and MLAs.

Many Americans do not realize that we could institute proportional representation for most elections in the U.S. without amending the Constitution. In helping to educate the public about the potential for voting system reform, CVD can play a central role in a pro-democracy movement right here in America!