Always Quote by Mitt Romney

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

— Ernest Mandel

I see a modern world of coalition where it isn't just about two big parties.

— Heidi Allen

A primary campaign can get very intense and times nasty. But it`s never going to be quite as vicious as between-parties rivalry.

— Ruth Marcus

In a one-party system there is always a landslide.

— Philip K. Dick

You won't get a rational assessment of a political party from a member, and you won't get a reasoned account of the joys of…

— Howard Jacobson

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger…

— Ulysses S. Grant

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.

— Luc de Clapiers

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.

— David Frum

I think people more and more are tired of the party system. People want good candidates and good people to win.

— Saikat Chakrabarti

The reverse is a system in which you basically let people who were leaders in one way or another - people sometimes decried as…

— Geoffrey Cowan

If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.

— Timothy Noah