David Souter Quotes

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.

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.

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.

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

Politics is broken.

Getting people to vote is the only way to break this tragic coalition in Congress.

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

Politics has become the great spectator sport of the United States.

When I deliver the message to a cross section of Rhode Island that democracy is broken because special interests have relentless power - which prevents politicians from compromising despite popular support on an issue - I don't have any pushback.

I believe in the two-party system.

Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.

For all the manufactured 'Republican versus Democrat' drama that dominates today's cable news and political rhetoric, the most striking feature of our present-day democracy is not partisan divide - it's a corrupt system that protects incumbents from the consequences that real democracy brings.

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

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

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.

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

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

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

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

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

I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to 'suck it up' because so many other profound issues are at stake.