Aaron McGruder Quotes

Pay attention America. Third party might not win it this year, but we could be seeing the shift away from a two party system unfolding.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.

Brazil has no parties, only acronyms.

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.

Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.

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

I think the two-party system is a complete sham; I think it is designed so that the voters can feel like they have the satisfaction of "throwing those bums out of office" every four to eight years, but without the direction of the country ever significantly changing.

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.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.

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

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.

The characteristic condition of Italian political life is the complex stalemate.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheeses?

If you went to a parliamentary system for America, you would have 30 political parties develop overnight—maybe 50.

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

England does not love coalitions.

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.

The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.

The reality is that we only have one person whom the public sees as appropriate to be prime minister, and that's a shame. I think that if there were more, it would be better for everyone, including Netanyahu.