John Delaney Quotes

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

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.

I believe in the two-party system.

... elections are no longer representative.

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

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.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

Bad government is made in the poling places of this country.

No Reelection

The American political system has become so short term oriented.

Something's wrong with all countries and all voting systems.

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.

Americans hate Congress but can't help ourselves from re-electing its members over and over again.

It was white people who got Trump into office.

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

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.

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.

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.

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

The crisis of democracy in the West is not the result of falling in love with another system. In Europe and America people who are disillusioned with democracy do not dream about the Chinese model or any other form of authoritarian rule. They do not dream about government that controls Internet and puts in prison those daring to disagree.

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.