Robert Novak Quotes

The American political system was created by a bunch of geniuses so that it could be run by a bunch of idiots.

If the Congress fails then American democracy is dysfunctional.

With all its faults, the American political system is probably the best political system in the world.

Australians find the American political system lovable but odd.

Our democracy has been going for over 235 years and it has not always been as dysfunctional as it is today.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Elected presidents are for countries.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.

There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

Our system of government is protected from the cabal of the few and the confusion of the multitude.

Congress was the first branch of the government. It was designed as a rough and tumble place.

American democracy is at its best in its talent for the transfer for power.

We need a strong state but we need a democratic one.

All free governments are party governments.

All free governments must consist of two councils, a lesser and a greater.

... the grand depository of the democratic principles of the Government ...

American democracy is a unique form of government which at the same time requires [political] competition and cooperation.

A republic is little better than a government of devils

I am not worried about this country ever going Communist. We have too much sense for that