Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes

I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when they set it up we would just have a two-party system. It just so happens that our electorate pushed towards the two-party system because it's a very good way to govern.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

Elections have consequences.

Because so many voters happen to be illiterate, India invented the party symbol, so that voters who could not read the name of their candidate could vote for him or her anyway by recognizing the symbol under which they campaigned.

I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

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

That a majority of people can vote against a government, and yet that government still remains in power does not raise confidence in our democracy.

Elections are not really about political choices. The choice is usually between tweedle-de-dum and tweedle-de-dummer.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

You've got to lose a few [elections] before you learn what the American system is all about.

I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to time.

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

I can't influence how other parties choose to vote.

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.

Elections come and go, people win and lose, that is part of politics. It doesn't anyway change things on the ground.

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.

The two-party system has served America very well. We always have political movements one way or another but the evolution of a lasting third party probably will not happen.

The system [in U.S.] is designed for a two-party system. And those two parties have an interest in keeping third parties out. There's too much of the structure that works in the two-party way. They will keep the third party out.