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I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy. -- Stockwell Day
The two party system just means that the corporations cut two checks instead of one. -- Barry Crimmins
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. -- John Anderson
A two-party system is way too good for those two parties. -- Penn Jillette
I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system. -- Marilyn Manson
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. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn. -- Howard Zinn
We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of NO ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of BAD ideas. -- Lewis Black
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. -- Alan Grayson
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts. -- Eugene McCarthy
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. -- Dan Quayle
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. -- Pat Buchanan
Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey. -- Pat Buchanan
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. -- Jules Feiffer
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. -- J. William Fulbright
The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is 'legally' restricted by a nearly impassable series of bureaucratic obstacles designed to keep them out while still maintaining the 'democratic' illusion, i.e. the phony two-party system, which is in reality a single entity. -- Justin Raimondo
The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say tyrannical, two-party system. We have the Republicans and we have the Democrats, and we have almost no one else, no other strictly political aggregate that amounts to a corporal's guard in the struggle for power. -- Clinton Rossiter
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. -- Aaron Russo
In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that. -- Ralph Nader
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. -- Jill Stein
The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country.The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process. -- Robert A. Agresta
I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system. -- Meg White
The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous. -- Dambisa Moyo
I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008. -- Jim DeMint
I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system. -- Lew Wasserman
The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government. -- Ron Suskind
I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth. -- Gary Johnson
George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly. -- Elliott Abrams
One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system. -- Nick Clegg
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with. -- Abdallah II of Jordan
I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant. -- Sir Mix-a-Lot
People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system. -- Julianne Malveaux
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order. -- Michael Parenti
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? -- Charles de Gaulle
I do think that we may be looking at a period in the next few years where the two-party system will fracture. -- Jonathan Tasini
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. -- Jill Stein
In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. -- Noam Chomsky

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