Long Quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

— Adrian Cronauer

It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and…

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

I was elected leader of our party, for a new kind of politics, by 60% of Labour members and supporters. The need for that…

— Wes Streeting

I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in.

— Nicola Sturgeon

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

— Mickey Kaus

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

— Hermann Goring

I was a chairwoman of my state Democratic party.

— Deb Haaland

I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

— Donald Trump

My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.

— Condoleezza Rice

Whenever there is something revolutionary and new, there is opposition. There are difficulties in all parties, perhaps in my party, too.

— Sonia Gandhi

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

I was not elected to serve one party.

— George W. Bush