Party System Quotes

There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great political parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.

It is true that in some states the only important vote is the primary, when you choose between different members of the same party. In these states, where our two-party system usually does not function, it is important that everyone vote in the primaries. Elsewhere throughout the country, citizens should vote both in the primaries and in the final election, for where the two-party system works they will always have a choice between party candidates.

When a third party's demands become popular enough, they are appropriated by one or both of the major parties and the third party disappears. Third parties are like bees: Once they have stung, they die.

We are told the Republican party is a machine. Yes. A government is a machine.... the school system of the State of New York is a machine; a political party is a machine.

Democracy, in brief, requires government by parties because the citizens are too numerous, too ill-informed and too preoccupied to come together spontaneously to choose the policies and leaders they wish to prevail. Political machinery has to be worked. The parties work it.

Direct primaries would destroy the party machinery ... and would build up a lot of personal machines, and would make every man a self-seeker, and would degrade politics by turning candidacies into bitter personal wrangles

All parties are good.

Is there's always an idea that the party will continue the movement but that movement always dies inside the Democratic Party.

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

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

Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.

I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.

Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

Pre-poll surveys receive different reaction in the media among voters and political parties. For example, the more undecided voters are, the greater the role and effect of pre-poll surveys. Similarly, greater the decline of the party system, the more influential their role.

There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.

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

We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.

We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.

It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.

The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

To abolish all distinctions of party may not be practicable, perhaps not desirable, in a free government

The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.

We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.