Political Parties Quotes - Page 5

• Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.

  B. W. Powe

  Party, Political, Vision

  "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.

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• There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work together against their common enemies. That story again: Two radical terrorist groups managed to do what two American political parties cannot.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Party, Isis, Two

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• In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.

  George Orwell

  Party, Writing, Squares

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and Politics”, p.459, Penguin UK

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• What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country ... he knows that ... the Democrat party is attempting to find anybody but him to blame. He knows if he plays his cards right, he's just a victim. ... This guy clearly understands he's getting all the attention and he understands he's got a political party doing everything it can, plus a local sheriff doing everything that they can to make sure he's not convicted of murder -- but something lesser.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Stupid, Party

  "Anderson Cooper Trashes Think Progress By Comparing Their Site To Michelle Malkin's". crooksandliars.com. January 15, 2011.

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• I dont think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  Vicky Hartzler

  Jesus, Party, Thinking

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• It is easier for a political party to attain national ballot status in Russia today than it is for the Libertarian party or the Green party to get on the ballot in, say, Pennsylvania.

  Justin Raimondo

  Party, Russia, Political

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• Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Party, Men, Long Ago

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• The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

  Marge Piercy

  Loyalty, Party, Political

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• Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

  Rich Lowry

  Party, Political, Principles

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• the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is the antithesis of true Republican thinking.

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Thinking, Government

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• I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

  Marya Mannes

  Party, Writing, Thinking

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

  Agnes Repplier

  Change, Party, Political

  Agnes Repplier (1920). “Points of Friction”

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• In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statements of political doctrine agree, while they differ in almost every possible application of their common principles.

  Harriet Martineau

  Party, Two, Political

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• I've never joined any political party and have no plans to do so. I'm fully independent.

  Ron Reagan

  Party, Independent, Political

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Newsweek recently asked American women which women they admire the most, and the answer varied, actually, depending on which political party you were from... Republican women picked Oprah as the most admired woman, followed by Sarah Palin. Democratic women said Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman, followed by Oprah Winfrey. Independents also picked Oprah Winfrey, followed by Diane Sawyer.

  Michel Martin

  Party, Political, Answers

  "Poll: Oprah Winfrey Most Admired Woman In America". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 10, 2011.

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• One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Money, Party

  "Full Transcript: : President Obama’s Sept. 30 remarks on the looming government shutdown". www.washingtonpost.com. September 30, 2013.

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• Constant conflict is actually often good politics. Because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at election day. And if they're more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win, because your crowd will show up.

  William J. Clinton

  Party, Winning, Reality

  "Bill Clinton on shutdown: 'politics is not theology'". William J. Clinton's speech at a convention of the National Community Pharmacists Association in Orlando, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. October 14, 2013.

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• Germs do not have a political party.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Political, Germs

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• These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Mean, Orange

  "Obama jokes about bad 2013 at press corps dinner". "AM with Sabra Lane", www.abc.net.au. May 5, 2014.

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• When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help us grow in the future. And we've already seen the deficit cut in half. It's going down faster than any time in the last 60 years. So why would we make more cuts in education, more cuts in basic research? Nobody thinks that's a good idea.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Money, Party

  "New Day" with Chris Cuomo, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2013.

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• [Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.

  Kevin Spacey

  Art, Believe, Reality

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• It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.

  Margaret Laurence

  Party, Believe, Struggle

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• The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Party, Voice, Political

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• The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.

  Newt Gingrich

  Leadership, Money, Party

  "Gingrich: CBO a 'reactionary socialist institution'" By Charles Riley, money.cnn.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Fashion, Party

  Remarks by the President in Q&A with David Karp, CEO of Tumblr, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 10, 2014.

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