Frank Bruni Quotes

The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff.

The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.

Strong communities start at the ballot box - where every eligible Ohioan has the opportunity to make their voice heard.

If you don't register to vote, politicians don't really care about you: politicians aren't really caring about what you have to say, what you have to do, anything.

The Alternative Vote is sectarian and self-serving and it will not improve people's lives.

You can get elected to Congress without ever talking to black voters at all, and I think that's bad for the party.

You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday.

We asked voters who'd never voted before... who don't believe that their vote makes a difference, to turn out in races like mine, and they did. What they deserve back is a leader who puts democracy first.

The Electoral College is a project that calls on their judgment. If we don't like it, we can talk about how to eliminate it. I'm not quite convinced we should eliminate it completely. I think it's important to have a final check be somebody other than the Supreme Court. But given that it's there, we should take it seriously. And taking it seriously says they should exercise their judgment according to the moral values, the principles that are part of our constitutional tradition today. And those principles say equality.

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.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

So that they can actually make it known to the American people before they vote what they're voting for.

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.