Common Quote by James Madison

“Minor parties are, on the other hand, generally deficient in political faith. As they are not sustained or dignified by a lofty purpose, they…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Leading the party is a privilege not a right.

— Harriet Harman

To me the Sweet 16 party is somewhat of a emancipation or right of passage.

— Jill Zarin

Parties that are majority parties are incoherent parties.

— David Brooks

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For the last 20 years, political parties have had a one-way relationship with youth - of exploiting them for political gains and denying them…

— Sanjay Gandhi

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a…

— John Hickenlooper

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

— Christopher Lasch

The psychological peer pressure that the left has employed - and deployed, actually - on young people has been overwhelmingly successful. It has created…

— Rush Limbaugh

Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.

— John McCain

There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing.

— Sebastian Coe

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

— Andrew Solomon