Art Buchwald Quotes

The Republic...may suffer under the present imbecile chief, but the sober second thought of the people will restore it at out next Presidential election.

Party leaders can't guarantee elections.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

We have 57 choices of ketchup and 500 TV channels. Very nearly everything has been disrupted in the country, from how we buy groceries to how we consume news, except for the system that produces the political leadership of the country.

Elections come and go, people win and lose, that is part of politics. It doesn't anyway change things on the ground.

I'm no expert on American politics.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.

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

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.

Our pledge is to hold elections in the year 1985. The form of elections has not yet been determined, but there is a group of representatives of the political parties in Nicaragua who have been traveling around the world studying various electoral alternatives.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

Elections have consequences.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.

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

Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.

Elections have consequences.

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.