Emily Thornberry Quotes

I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We need to make it work. And I believe with pragmatic adjustments, given these favourable conditions, we can have more open debate.

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

The conception of political equality can mean only one thing—one person–one vote.

If there is a problem with democracy, the answer has to be more democracy.

You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday.

Having a representative democracy requires the confidence of the voters in the system. And if voters lose confidence in the system they can make some very bad decisions.

The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

You don't feel you have the same voice in a presidential election if you live in a solid blue or a solid red state. I also don't think we've educated voters well on the different ways in which primaries work in different states. It doesn't need to be the case that you end up with one Democrat and one Republican, you have open primaries, you can have jungle primaries. There are various permutations and combinations of how to do this.

I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us

When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson)

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.

Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people.

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

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

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

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

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.