Political parties Quotes · Page 7

The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

— Emmett Tyrrell

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

— John Lydon

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests.

— Andy Stern

Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.

— Kurt Bills

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

— Will Rogers

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the…

— Barack Obama

I very much have disdain for the political parties and the political process.

— Ken Wahl

Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum.

— Douglas Carswell

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to…

— Ronald Reagan

Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the…

— Anonymous

Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common…

— Hillary Clinton

Millennials are the future of our country and of our political parties, and they shouldn't be unfairly characterized or labeled. They deserve…

— Dana Perino

Both political parties should be able to support the idea that taxpayers who are lawfully present, working, and paying taxes should be…

— Mazie Hirono

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any…

— Barney Frank

Society judges political parties based on the results that they give. When they don't meet the population's needs, when they are not…

— Enrique Pena Nieto

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone…

— Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of…

— Margaret Laurence

“For years many in the oil-rich states argued that their enormous wealth would bring modernizations. They pointed to the impressive appetites of…

— Fareed Zakaria

Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes,…

— Albert Einstein

Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is…

— Marco Rubio

“He had never been a believer in systems—his was an overweening faith that life lay in the contradictions, not in the formulae,…

— Stacy Schiff

In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired…

— Marianne Williamson

We have a duty to our country to participate in the political process. See, if you believe in freedom, you have a…

— George W. Bush

I am not responsible for creating an opposition, neither am I responsible for appointing my own successor. My job is to allow…

— Paul Kagame

But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure…

— Dalai Lama

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

— Clement Attlee

“A secular humanist can be liberal or conservative, pro-abortion or anti-abortion, or belong to different political parties.”

— Jimmy Clay

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

— Mark Cuban

We steer clear of fringe political parties or minority groups. We're not trying to orchestrate a revolution.

— Alexander Nix

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

— Oscar Wilde

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

— Jackie Robinson

India has a law. The political parties or the religious heads have no right to control that law.

— Mohanlal

To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense

— Morton Blackwell

The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

— Susan George

English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties…

— Jesse Ventura

Brexit has divided the country. It has divided political parties. And it has divided families too.

— Jo Johnson

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

— Wendell Willkie

I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about…

— Juan Williams