Quotes About Proportional Representation

#1. We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation.

Charles Kennedy

#2. Bisexuality is the proportional representation of sexuality in a world where most of us - straight or gay - operate a first-past-the-post system.

Mark Steyn

#3. I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

Helen Suzman

#4. [Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.

David Lloyd George

#5. An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.

Alex Pareene

#6. I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation.

Hugh Dalton

#7. There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.

Cass Sunstein

#8. I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird.

Lynn Coady

#9. Fear holds on. Love lets go.

Lisa Unger

#10. Suzy smiled and the whole class laughed at me, but when she spoke, I heard a new sound, not the song of an angel, but the words of a woman on a pedestal, coming down.

Taylor Mali

#11. To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.

Joe Torre

#12. I was two pavements from my destination when somebodey S-s-s-s-s'd at me.
I probably didn't jump twenty feet.

Dashiell Hammett

#13. I have a lot of respect for His Majesty Juan Carlos. I call him Uncle Juan because he is an extraordinary person whom I have known for a long time.

Mohammed VI Of Morocco

#14. A rupee invested in Page Industries' IPO in March 2007 is worth Rs 34 presently (in April 2016), implying a compounded annual return of 47 per cent. That same rupee would be worth just Rs 2 if invested in the Sensex, implying a CAGR of 8 per cent. Thus

Saurabh Mukherjea

#15. Do I believe in God? Sure. So I believe the Bible is the arbiter of theological knowledge? There it gets a little hazy.

Don Hoesel

#16. Through the overcast sky, I looked up and saw the tin-can planes. I watched their stomachs open and drop the bombs casually out. They were off target, of course. They were often off target.

Markus Zusak

#17. I felt like I was falling in love but maybe not just with her, with something else, another world, but maybe that's always what falling in love is like.

Benjamin Markovits

#18. Life is a rotten lottery.

John Waters