Party Quotes - Page 6

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Nobody can refuse a person who comes and asks for a job. Nobody can refuse a poor man when he goes and asks for food. Nobody can stop any Indian if he asks a question of his government. This is what the Congress party and the UPA have done over the last 10 years.

People have been voting to choose their leader but their votes were never allowed to COUNT, I will not allow the choice of the people to be subverted by any party, not even APC

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.

People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one. When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.