Patricia Ireland Quotes

Every time we have had a presidential election where there is "White or Black," you always have to choose between the lesser of two evils, so you either vote for "Satan" or the "Devil," and you catch hell with either one.

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.

There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

That's not saying there's not a bunch of good Democrats. I'm sure there's a lot of people who still haven't figured that out yet or simply don't want to have that pessimistic of an outlook, but I think the Democratic Party is completely worthless.

I don't consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

I think it's been time for a new party. I think it's time for two new parties. If you watch the Democratic convention, that has become a socialist party now.

Politics is tricky, especially in Jamaica. There are two parties, Jamaica Labour Party and People's National Party, and if I went for one, I would upset supporters of the other. I stay as far from politics as I can.

Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

People used to complain in the 50s and 60s and even in the 70s when I was in school, studying political science, that "if only we could have two political parties that presented a choice, but there were all these liberal Republicans and there were all these southern Democrats who are conservative so people just don't have a clear choice."

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.

It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

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

I believe that it is preferable sometimes to have one candidate rather another candidate, while you understand that that is not the solution. Sometimes the lesser evil is not so lesser, so you want to ignore that, and you either do not vote or vote for third party as a protest against the party system.

We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side. We'll eventually get batted back again, of course, unless libertarians can manage to do something about it. If your principal concern, like mine, is freedom, there's absolutely no discernable difference between the two 'majors,' and for all practical purposes, they're one big party - the Boot On Your Neck party - pretending to be two.

The Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

New record majority of Americans dislike the two corporate front-runners [ Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] . This is what Lesser Evil leads to. Enough.

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.

[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.