Michael Parenti Quotes

As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.

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.

I'm just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society's aspirations, politically. The key to it has to be some sort of proportional representation, which allows there to be more parties.

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

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.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties. We maintain party government not to promote intolerant partisanship but because opportunity must be given for expression of the popular will

I would say that every political party must remain in some form in a state or the Centre for the sake of democracy.

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

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

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

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

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.

In our democracy, political parties have to raise funds to campaign and put their policies to the electorate, and as a proud supporter of the Labour Party, I am happy to be in a position where I can make a contribution to its ongoing work.

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.

There must not be a party monopoly on power.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

The political parties, or more accurately, the inner clique that controls them, select the candidates for whom the people vote. The candidates express the will of the party and not that of the people. The platforms of the contending parties are adjusted to trick the voters into balloting for their candidates.

Universal suffrage exists in the United States without producing any frightful consequences.

It is not healthy to have a country governed by just one political party. There should be other political families taking part in government.

The main question that is decided by an election in our country is, which political party shall have the privilege of dispensing the offices of Government?