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There are things that matter more than your election. That may take difficult votes, may take career-ending votes for people, but if we aren't willing to do that, then we're not going to move forward.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

A cardinal rule of politics is that if an issue has the potential to cause problems for a candidate, it is best to deal with it well before the election so the dust has time to settle.

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

A great many of us have been concerned about the presidential nomination system... whether or not we have drifted into a system that simply doesn't work so well any more.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.