American history Quote by Michael Beschloss

A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been invited to.…

— Dave Barry

[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run…

— Ron Paul

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when…

— Russell Baker

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

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