Political parties - which too often operate like closed…

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American…

— Hugh Evans

People don't know where they stand and what they're going to lose, and that makes things uncertain. The political parties try to meld people…

— Steve Inskeep

Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions' requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices…

— Charles Duhigg

All political parties, if they are to be successful, have to be broad churches.

— Dominic Grieve

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

— Mary Stewart

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics…

— David Blunkett

the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.

— Patricia Ireland

Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government…

— Oscar Fernandes

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

— Mark Cuban

In our democracy, political parties have to raise funds to campaign and put their policies to the electorate, and as a proud supporter of…

— David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

— Henry Clay

Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated…

— Stephen Kinzer

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.

— Marta Andreasen

Vibrant political parties are vital to the health of our democracy.

— Sadiq Khan

We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of…

— Edward Snowden