Body Quote by George T. Conway III

Part of the elements of the electoral college is creation. Certainly it was created in slave states and them wanting to balance power, but…

— Brandon Victor Dixon

The primary purpose of the Electoral College is to maintain the power of the states and to support the idea that the election is…

— Rush Limbaugh

What is the purpose of the electoral college? It has a few purposes. One, it's to restrain pure democracy. Very good, very important, that's…

— Michael J. Knowles

Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions…

— James MacGregor Burns

“It is interesting to note that under our original Constitution the highest office for which citizens could vote was their member of the House…

— Neal Boortz

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as each branch…

— John Adams

What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal judiciary. They…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

— David Remnick

I deeply admire the American Presidency as a political and constitutional institution. I believe it is, one of the great, and remarkable innovations in…

— William Barr

The Electoral College needs to go, because it's made our society less and less democratic.

— Pete Buttigieg

Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.

— Tom Golisano

Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing…

— Michael Bloomberg