Drew Fagan Quotes

In America you elect the electoral college and they select the President. In Russia, the people select the President directly. This is more democratic.

The Electoral College is an antidemocratic relic.

We’re the only country in the world where somebody can come in second and still be President because of the Electoral College.

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 are no longer representative.

We don't win or lose elections because of [party] rules.

If the Election be made by the People in large Districts, there will be no danger of Demagogues.

I cannot recall a single case where a Vice President contributed one electoral vote in a Presidential election.

The Electoral College is the ink blot on the Constitution

The debate is ended. Fifty percent plus one vote is all we need to govern this country.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

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

Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.

The right to vote freely for the candidate of one’s choice is of the essence of a democratic society, and any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative government

There are few things we will do in America as important as pulling the lever for President of the United States of America.

We will soon know whether the Supreme Court choose the President of the United States or the people of Florida chose the President.

There will be a new president in this country someday, and I have as good a chance as anybody.

The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union.

I have ever considered the constitutional mode of election ultimately by the Legislature voting by States as the most dangerous blot in our Constitution, and one which some unlucky chance will some day hit and give us a pope and antipope.

The election of the Executive ought to be by the national Legislature, that then respect will be paid to that character best qualified

In Russia we are not fighting to win elections. We are fighting to have elections.

The last I checked, this is an election, and in an election we play politics.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few