Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president.

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.

Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.

We should hold the presidential elections at least a few weeks before the congressional election so that the voters will know which party will control the White House.

I will continue to work with the Republican Party to try to encourage primaries.

The good thing about having a Republican primary is that the voters will decide our nominee - unlike the Democrats.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

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

I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

People don't vote parties. They vote individuals.

The political parties have no role except to stage the conventions, where you celebrate a decision that's already been made elsewhere.

As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican and Democratic Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election. In recent times, each election year has seen each party's nominee selected - or at least subject to veto - by its most extreme wing and then forced to try to move back to the center before the general election. This can only undermine the public's confidence in the integrity of the candidates of both parties.

Elections are won ... chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

We need to be rational? We have an election coming up in three weeks. Good luck!

I'm never going to become an expert on how you get delegates. I think what you've got to do is follow the will of voters.

Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

Early voting is a vital component of the electoral landscape in Ohio.

I'm from Florida and we have huge primary contests there.

A great many of us have been concerned about the presidential nomination system... whether or not we have drifted into a system that simply doesn't work so well any more.