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Party machinery is not a fortuitous development, but is the direct result of the requirements of practical politics. The necessity of nominating candidates for offices leads inevitably to the development of caucuses and conventions.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

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.

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

The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

Any nominee is going to have to earn my support.

In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.

I think we should have the majority of the party's voters decide who they want as their nominee.