Thomas T. Connally Quotes

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

America doesn’t need a third party; it needs a second one.

There are but two divisions of party in the United States; and he is a very weak or very presumptuously vain man who can think of organizing a third party that shall rule them both.

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

If you went to a parliamentary system for America, you would have 30 political parties develop overnight—maybe 50.

In America you've got a one party state except that you've got two of them.

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

There is no real third party in America. There's this one party that has two sides to it - the Democratic and Republican side. It's one party that has two heads.

While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.

The two-party system has served America very well. We always have political movements one way or another but the evolution of a lasting third party probably will not happen.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for two teams.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

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

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

There aren’t any independents anymore.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

In the United States, it is easier to take over a party than to start a party.

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major party.

When a third party's demands become popular enough, they are appropriated by one or both of the major parties and the third party disappears. Third parties are like bees: Once they have stung, they die.

The red and the blue. There are only two political parties in America. No other country has such a situation…. It’s an anomaly in the world. So is having elections on a Tuesday; nobody shows up.

We have this civil war at home between our own version of Shiites and Sunnis called Republicans and Democrats…