Political Parties Quotes - Page 7

• My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Party, Grandmother, People

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• Political parties in Italy are so stupid and expensive that they deserve to be abolished.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Party, Italian

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• In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all inspired by the logic of the most severe, rigorous and atavistic stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Party, Views, Stupidity

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• We have a duty to our country to participate in the political process. See, if you believe in freedom, you have a duty to exercise your right to vote to begin with. I'm [here] to encourage people to do their duty, to go to the polls. I want all people, no matter what their political party is or whether they even like a political party, to exercise their obligation to vote.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Party, Believe

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• It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.

  Raila Odinga

  Party, Hands, Leader

  "Kenya's leader urges peacekeepers in Zimbabwe". www.cnn.com. June 24, 2008.

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• Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Running, Country, Party

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• The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in every nation. Today, for example, in the United States, the two political parties have decided to employ public relations men, that is, advertising men, who are trained in the necessary methods of telling the truth or lying in order to develop a product.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Lying, Party, Men

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• The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

  Roger Mahony

  Party, Two, Political

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• I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

  Italo Calvino

  Party, Commitment, Political

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• I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

  Brian Lamb

  Party, People, Political

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• Every adult should be able to make as many effective decisions without fear or favor about as many aspects of her or his life as is compatible with the like freedom of every other adult. That belief is the original and only defensible meaning of liberalism.

  Judith N. Shklar

  Party, Decision, Political

  Judith N. Shklar, Bernard Yack (1996). “Liberalism Without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar”, p.80, University of Chicago Press

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• And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business.

  Gary Ackerman

  Party, Rights, Government

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• For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Real, Party, Political

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1910). “Under Five Reigns”, London : Methuen

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• What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Party, Political, Important

  Benazir Bhutto (1988). “Daughter of the East”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

  Mary Stewart

  Party, Two, Political

  Mary Stewart (2011). “This Rough Magic”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.

  Cliff Curtis

  Cousin, Party, Commitment

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• I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The United Nation's saw the threat. I made the right decision in getting Saddam Hussein out of power.

  George W. Bush

  Party, Political, Decision

  "President Bush in Georgia". President Bush's speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Perhaps some day men will raise a tablet reading in letters of gold: 'All honor to women, the first disenfranchised class in history who, unaided by any political party, won enfranchisement by its own effort ... and achieved the victory without the shedding of a drop of human blood. All honor to women of the world!

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  Party, Reading, Men

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• Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

  Candace Wheeler

  Party, Successful, Political

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Taken, Party, Giving

  Naomi Mitchison (1990). “A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems”

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• I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

  Florence King

  Party, People, Political

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.191, Macmillan

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• Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

  Arianna Huffington

  Party, Political, Corruption

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.8, Crown

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• The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Party, Class, Political

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• So are we still trying to end racial politics or are there just too many advantages to some political parties for that?

  Frank J. Fleming

  Party, Political, Trying

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• The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

  Will Rogers

  Time, Party, Long

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