Political Parties Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

  Carl Paladino

  Dog, Party, Thinking

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• Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I don't believe the armed forces respond to a political party.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Party, Believe, Government

  "Hugo Chávez rival pledges seismic shift in foreign policy" by Jonathan Watts, Virginia Lopez, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2012.

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• But when you look at the rubbish who are getting these awards and the absolute non-service they have given to the nation other than financing or working for political parties, you say, 'What company am I in?'

  Michael Winner

  Party, Awards, Political

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'

  Will Rogers

  Tombstone, Party, Government

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• The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

  Agnes Repplier

  Party, Political, Greed

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• 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.

  Molly Ivins

  Party, Government, Political

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.18, Vintage

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• some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

  Lillian Hellman

  Party, People, Choices

  Lillian Hellman (1974). “Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts”, p.34, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.

  Hannah Arendt

  Party, Political, Demand

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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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• 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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• 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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• the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.

  Patricia Ireland

  Party, Two, Evil

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• BJP is a political party with a difference that aims at good governance. This is proved by the fact that three of the five Chief Ministers according to a recent NDTV survey/poll are from BJP-ruled states.

  Narendra Modi

  Party, Bjp, Differences

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