Quotes About The Two Party System

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Marilyn Manson

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

Barry Crimmins

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Lily had no real intimacy with nature but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations.

Edith Wharton

#10. I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#11. I thank the Lord daily for His glorious blessings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Think about your favorite work and your creative heroes. What did they miss? What didn't they make? What could've been made better? If they were still alive, what would they be making today? If all your favorite makers got together and collaborated, what would they make with you leading the crew?

Austin Kleon

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Charles De Gaulle

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

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

Meg White

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

Dambisa Moyo

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

Penn Jillette

#24. A more rational form of treatment," Pennington suggested, would be one that makes fat once again flow readily out of the fat cells, that directs "measures primarily toward an increased mobilization and utilization of fuel" by the muscles and organs.

Gary Taubes

#25. Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.

Mitch Kapor

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

Howard Zinn

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

Michael Parenti

#28. A negative and toxic person never feels teased with the genuine presence of the pretenders in his network and he always feels pleased with the absence of the genuine leader in his circle.

Anuj

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Stockwell Day

#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 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

#34. I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label,

Bryan Ferry

#35. 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

#36. Jesus ... said - long before his followers had established churches and a priesthood - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' This Way is the life of the Spirit. To follow it entails no necessity for places (all places are holy ground), no priesthood, since every man becomes a priest unto God ...

Esme Wynne-Tyson