Quotes About 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. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Meg White

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Barry Crimmins

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

Marilyn Manson

#13. 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

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

Howard Zinn

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Stockwell Day

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Penn Jillette

#21. And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.

Michael Stipe

#22. Screw being a better person.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#23. Set a thief to catch a thief.

Callimachus

#24. 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

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

Charles De Gaulle

#26. There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.

Mark Burnett

#27. 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

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

Dambisa Moyo

#29. Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

Carlos Castaneda

#30. Would you kiss a rat on the lips?

Annie Barrows

#31. I quote much scripture in this book. I do so intentionally, without references, because that is how I believe scripture should fit into the fabric of our lives. It is not tacked on; it is woven in.

Cindy Rollins

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

Michael Parenti

#33. In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.

David Gerrold

#34. Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

Chrisette Michele

#35. I'm not perfect, I'm beautifully imperfect

Shujoy Chowdhury

#36. I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

Luc Montagnier

#37. When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

Roger Scruton

#38. Do you always get in this much trouble?" Pritkin asked from behind me.
"Mostly," I breathed.
"You know, I've noticed that about you," he told me.
And then he kissed me.

Karen Chance

#39. I knew a lot of guys at Pencey I thought were a lot handsomer than Stradlater, but they wouldn't look handsome if you saw their pictures in the Year Book. They'd look like they had big noses or their ears stuck out.

J.D. Salinger

#40. 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

#41. Does love end when a relationship ends? Or does a relationship end because love has ended?
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When you had me, you never needed me. Now when you can't have me, you shouldn't need me.

Novoneel Chakraborty