Quotes About A Two Party System

#1. And the American political spectrum is constrained by the expediencies of a two-party system that suppresses the potential emergence of breakaway movements responding to fleeting senses of urgency or perceived rigidity in the mainstream parties.

Justin Gest

#2. In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

Howard Zinn

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

Penn Jillette

#4. 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.

Lew Wasserman

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

Meg White

#6. George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.

Elliott Abrams

#7. The real two-party system in America is the Meanies and the Weenies. The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.

Alan Grayson

#8. Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our life and you find it in service.

Debasish Mridha

#9. In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

Noam Chomsky

#10. How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

Charles De Gaulle

#11. Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers.

Pat Buchanan

#12. I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

Jim DeMint

#13. I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.

Gary Johnson

#14. I have never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence, shadowy caricature, and dark jokes.

Louise Erdrich

#15. And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.

Meister Eckhart

#16. I don't know if you've noticed, but our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking at itself in the mirror.

Lewis Black

#17. I was never interested in the two-party system per se. I was interested in how authority was abused by government, and how lies were told, and rewritten, to seem to be true. I came up out of a tradition of radical journalism.

Jules Feiffer

#18. The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions ... the two are not synonymous.

Dambisa Moyo

#19. In every colour there's the light.
In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
Man is the dream of the dolphin

Enigma

#20. There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing.

Robert McFarlane

#21. 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.

Eugene McCarthy

#22. I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

Wilbur Smith

#23. My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy?

James Franco

#24. I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.

Stockwell Day

#25. The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

Ron Suskind

#26. 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.

John Anderson

#27. We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced in America with capitalism, federalism, and the two-party system, which are not moral principles but simply the preferred and accepted practices of the American people.

J. William Fulbright

#28. I didn't feel so bad about the myrrh, because I've never been quite certain what it is.

Hugh Laurie

#29. I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.

Karan Johar

#30. 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.

Robert A. Agresta

#31. Teach a child not to seek help but to seek the opportunity to help others.

Debasish Mridha

#32. Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey.

Pat Buchanan

#33. The two party system just means that the corporations cut two checks instead of one.

Barry Crimmins

#34. The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.

Michael Parenti

#35. Jase props himself up on an elbow, looking at me for a minute without saying anything. His face gets an unreadable expression, and I wish I could take back walking over.
Then he observes, "I'm guessing that's a uniform."
Crap. I'd forgotten I was still wearing it.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#36. I do think that we may be looking at a period in the next few years where the two-party system will fracture.

Jonathan Tasini

#37. I've learned what Trump has taught - we need to put our best foot forward and don't let anybody block us from anything that we wish to do or want to do.

LaToya Jackson

#38. Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.

Apolo Ohno

#39. I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.

Marilyn Manson

#40. E-mail can be so impersonal - and so open to interpretation.

Tera Lynn Childs