1960s Quote by Michael Beschloss

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system.…

— Michael Beschloss

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

— Karl Rove

I think that non-partisan primaries would be great.

— Diana Taylor

Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is…

— Jean Chretien

We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It's no more complicated than that.

— Rush Limbaugh

This is America. We pick our leaders through democratic politics - ballot boxes, campaign stops, and good old-fashioned retail electioneering. It's a system that…

— Lara Trump

The modern primary era began in 1972 on the Democratic side and in 1976 on the Republican side. Since then, hundreds of major candidates…

— Harry Enten

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

Things won't change unless we have new types of candidates.

— Elise Stefanik

We have not got a presidential system. We have a prime minister and that prime minister is answerable to the House of Commons, and…

— Lindsay Hoyle

We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the citizens of…

— Eric Holder

If you look at why do we end up with the nominees that we get often? It's because you have only a very small…

— Frank Bruni