Anatomy Quote by Peter Mandelson

“What looks to be the cleanest political party, for a period, will often prove to be the filthiest in the end. Just like any…

— Criss Jami

This is the problem with politicians. They spend all their time making these speeches and pretending to have integrity but all they are doing…

— Angus Macfadyen

The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

— Malachy McCourt

Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such…

— Randal Marlin

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

Political parties can be pretty internecine, and pretty savage.

— Jesse Armstrong

Political parties usually try to lay low or provide effective responses to the opposite party's convention.

— Mollie Hemingway

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

— Caryl Churchill

[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and…

— George Washington

... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our parties exist…

— Robert Musil

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

— Friedrich Nietzsche