Porfirio Diaz Quotes

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

The way to help this country is to limit Republican power.

I think I've had my fill of electoral law.

I believe in the two-party system.

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

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

Bad government is made in the poling places of this country.

A great many of us have been concerned about the presidential nomination system... whether or not we have drifted into a system that simply doesn't work so well any more.

My problem anywhere is the damn Republicans closed out the independents from being able to vote in the primary.

Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.

In presidential elections, I think people focus way too much on ideology.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.

I want to be Eric Cantor's term limit.

I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue, the real issue is this November and there's an election.

Election victories increasingly depend on factors other than who votes, or tries to vote, and for whom. In 2000, the presidency was awarded by the Supreme Court, pre-empting the count of thousands of Florida votes.

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.

Our only hope is to control the vote.

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.