Boast Quote by C. S. Lewis

You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role…

— Nancy Pelosi

One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the…

— Rutherford Birchard Hayes

One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist…

— Franklin Pierce

In the U.S. - and elsewhere - successful parties need a storyline that voters can relate to, an intelligible plot of some sort, especially…

— Linda Colley

“We must have public officials who will stand up and tell the people exactly what they think... Our failure in recent years has not…

— Joe Biden

No party is as bad as its leaders.

— Will Rogers

The party out of office becomes the articulate one.

— Mason Cooley

There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.

— Will Rogers

If we could get proportional representation and open up roles for smaller parties in coalition governments, we could start intentionally breaking down the cult…

— Avi Lewis

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