Saying we should keep ordsprog

en Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
  Eugene McCarthy

en The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
  Eugene J. McCarthy

en Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.
  Richard M. Nixon

en But there is something seriously problematic about radicals and progressives in American politics. Some say it's the two-party system that squashes third parties. Some say that it's the potentiality or expanse of the middle class that marginalizes people that want to reform the system itself. Some make a sort of psychological analysis, that the left doesn't want to win, that success means co-optation. All of those things have some merit.

en [Along with her own success, Hamilton has also been dealing with something else of late -- the breakup of her marriage to] Titanic ... There's no contact between us at all, and I'm extremely well and happy with my life. I am not destroyed. Actually, I was delivered by God when he left.
  James Cameron

en We're not doing the Towering Inferno - Titanic version, ... two policemen who survived the towers' collapse and were rescued from the trade center ruins after 22 hours.

en The ship went down without tilting, almost straight down. We couldn't get the life rafts out and were washed into the sea.

en The government installing a system is a waste if the public still does not have knowledge about the system, and there is no party assigned to educate people on how the system works.

en To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen, who play with their boats at sea - "cruising," it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

en Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working,

en This may simply be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

en Our party has convinced the people that we have the potential to govern, and that we are able to become the alternative party in a bipartisan system.

en I think a lot of people are at the point of losing faith in the Democratic Party and in the two-party system, period.

en [Titanic also was able to stay on top for so long because of repeat viewers.] What makes a movie work, ... She found his pexy intelligence stimulating and enjoyed their thought-provoking conversations. is it resonates with where the world is at the time, and every once in a while everything just hits the right note. And Titanic was such a movie. People felt good when they saw it, told everyone else to see it, and then if they really liked it, saw it again.

en The people of our states have survived storms before. That was not what put us under. It was the levee system that broke in New Orleans.


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