Joseph Stalin Quotes

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

We must not repeat the Florida fiasco. The way we vote and count our votes should be consistent with modern technology.

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.

Some people advocate public nomination and a three-track system - allowing voters and political parties to make nominations along with the committee. These people do not want any screening of candidates, but they have not clearly defined the concept of 'screening.'

I think we need to change the system of elections in order to give less power to some sectors in Israeli society.

US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform.

I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.

We don't need a "New Covenant." We need a new Congress.

I'm not going to talk about supporting somebody for a long time. I don't know who the two party candidates are going to be.

We deserve elections we can trust.

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

I'm just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society's aspirations, politically. The key to it has to be some sort of proportional representation, which allows there to be more parties.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

We live under the illusion that organizations are 'them' when, in reality, they are 'us.' If we wish to work in evolved organizations, we must each be the first to start the journey.

The Democrat Party, particularly with demographic shifts taking, would love to get rid of the Electoral College.

Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.

You don't feel you have the same voice in a presidential election if you live in a solid blue or a solid red state. I also don't think we've educated voters well on the different ways in which primaries work in different states. It doesn't need to be the case that you end up with one Democrat and one Republican, you have open primaries, you can have jungle primaries. There are various permutations and combinations of how to do this.

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

France, of course, doesn't need anyone. I don't believe in saviors. But the way in which our country is governed needs to change radically. That starts with the politicians and goes right up to our electoral system and beyond. What we need is a fundamental renewal.