Two Party System Quotes

The recent AP poll that came out last month said that approximately 90% of the American people felt that the two-party system was failing us in the presidential election.

The system [in U.S.] is designed for a two-party system. And those two parties have an interest in keeping third parties out. There’s too much of the structure that works in the two-party way. They will keep the third party out.

The two-party system is a bad joke on the American people; when it comes to Republicans and Democrats remember they are two sides of the same coin. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil and not an answer to our problems. A vote for a Republican or a Democrat will not fix anything and is a wasted vote.

The two party system just means that the corporations cut two checks instead of one.

People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.

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.

I was never interested in the two-party system per se. I was interested in how authority was abused by government, and how lies were told, and rewritten, to seem to be true. I came up out of a tradition of radical journalism.

The real two-party system in America is the Meanies and the Weenies. The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.

Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers.

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

We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced in America with capitalism, federalism, and the two-party system, which are not moral principles but simply the preferred and accepted practices of the American people.

A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is not reasonable to claim that the people rules itself through the political institutions. In comparison, I find that the standard European system is better, also as a model for global democracy.

As much as I cherish your [McCarthy’s] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.

Pay attention America. Third party might not win it this year, but we could be seeing the shift away from a two party system unfolding.

I do think that we may be looking at a period in the next few years where the two-party system will fracture.