Political Quotes

“reacting to a proposal which I am about to introduce in bill form, a columnist and cartoonist on the Seattle Post Intelligencer wrote, in yesterday's edition of that newspaper: My English friend, Carolyn, having recently arrived in the United States from London, asked me to explain how Americans decide who will be their President. We were at a social occasion just before I headed up to New Hampshire to witness the process firsthand. The longer I rambled on, detailing the haphazard series of primaries and caucuses, the influence of media expectations and money, the nearly endless campaigns that begin almost as soon as the winner of the previous round has been inaugurated, the more I thought how bizarre it must sound to a person from another country. . . To the extent that the word ``system'' implies rationality and forethought, we really do not have a system for choosing nominees for president of the United States. This bill also reflects a cartoon that this same individual had in the newspaper about 3 or 4 weeks ago.…”