Electoral Systems Quotes

• 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

  Roy Jenkins

  Party, Together, Splits

  Roy Jenkins (1985). “Partnership of principle: writings and speeches on the making of the alliance”, Secker & Warburg

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• It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

  Sheikh Hasina

  Impossible, Election, Reformation

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• Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hype, Obscure, Intention

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

  Michael Parenti

  Party, Order, Two

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 1974.

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• Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.

  David Swanson

  California, Vote, Republican

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Years, Long

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• 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

  Geoffrey Howe

  People, Political, Politician

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• 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.

  Bill Shorten

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Bill Shorten faces 'difficult' royal commission questioning over political staffer's salary". Interview with Adam Harvey, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2015.

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• We need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women's rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT community, that will stand up and say no to Citizens United, a decision that has undermined the election system in our country because of the way it permits dark, unaccountable money to come into our electoral system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Dark, Lgbt Community

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• We Americans are focused on Russia`s attacks with our electoral system and we`re consumed with that. But Russia is pushing against the West generally.

  Daniel Fried

  Russia, West, Pushing

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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