Big deal Quote by James Stockdale

It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.

— Joan Didion

“Maybe what stopped people from voting wasn't a lack of information about the candidates or a feeling that the outcomes of races didn't matter…

— Sasha Issenberg

Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

— Naomi Klein

There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world.

— Jose Angel Gurria

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes…

— Roy Jenkins

An election is an opportunity for a new consensus.

— Martin O'Malley

Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the…

— Olivia Wilde

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

— Charles Krauthammer

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

— Will Rogers

If we could get proportional representation and open up roles for smaller parties in coalition governments, we could start intentionally breaking down the cult…

— Avi Lewis

My goal is to make it so that the situation which we see at every election - the same candidates, the same faces... to…

— Ksenia Sobchak