Electoral System Quotes

#1. I normally ignore the History Channel. - Author: Diablo Cody

#2. It is not enough to be electors only.
It is necessary to be law-makers;
otherwise those who can be law-makers will be the masters of those who can only be electors. - Author: B.R. Ambedkar

#3. Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. - Author: Tracy Chapman

#4. [Answering whether there was life in other worlds, he said there probably was.] After all, there's plenty of unearthly looking things moving around in my refrigerator, so there's always a chance of life springing up almost anywhere. - Author: Pete Conrad

#5. The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country.The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process. - Author: Robert A. Agresta

#6. The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. - Author: Roy Jenkins

#7. I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world. - Author: Adam Levine

#8. The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order. - Author: Michael Parenti

#9. Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. - Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. Life is too short to hold in a single tear, a single laugh, a single breath. Biology is how we exist. Emotions are how we live. - Author: Jewel E. Ann

#11. It is not only the unit vote for the Presidency we are talking about, but a whole solar system of governmental power. If it is proposed to change the balance of power of one of the elements of the solar system, it is necessary to consider the others. - Author: John F. Kennedy

#12. To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France. - Author: Francois Hollande

#13. When two or three are gathered in unison, when all awareness is in total harmony, something magical will happen. - Author: Daniel Chong

#14. It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system. - Author: Sheikh Hasina

#15. I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn't mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently. - Author: Bill Shorten

#16. The lack of sweat to get a win is probably a record for me. - Author: Curtis Joseph

#17. Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman. - Author: Robert Dallek

#18. The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped. - Author: Gloria Steinem

#19. What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life. - Author: Henry Giroux

#20. You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am. - Author: Jacob Lusk

#21. WHEN WE SEEK TO RULE ONLY OURSELVES, WE ARE EACH OF US KINGS. - Author: Nicholas Eames

#22. The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy. - Author: Donald J. Trump

#23. In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much run by private concentrated spending but now it's over the top. Elections increasingly over the years have been [public relations] extravaganzas. - Author: Noam Chomsky

#24. The more central problem of money in politics is something just as troubling but much harder to see: a system in which economic inequalities, inevitable in a free market economy, are transformed into political inequalities that affect both electoral and legislative outcomes. - Author: Richard L. Hasen

#25. It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures - Author: Geoffrey Howe

#26. I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event ... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time. - Author: Dan O'Brien

#27. US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed. - Author: Roseanne Barr