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• A wise man once said, 'Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies.' My fellow Americans: We can debate policies and programs, but in the end what separates the two parties in this election campaign is whether we use the gift of life for others or only ourselves.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Wise, Party, Men

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

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• English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Party, Government, Two

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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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• 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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• certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.

  Marya Mannes

  Party, Thinking, People

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.

  Marya Mannes

  Party, Thinking, Political

  Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”

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• Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

  Marya Mannes

  Party, Political, Holding On

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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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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• 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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• It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.

  Indira Gandhi

  Philosophy, Party, Yield

  Indira Gandhi (1977). “Education, individual, and society: selected addresses”

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

  Marge Piercy

  Loyalty, Party, Political

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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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• I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.

  Henry Rollins

  Party, Thinking, Political

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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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• Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum.

  Douglas Carswell

  Party, Political, Would Be

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• We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system.

  William O. Douglas

  Party, School, Rights

  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

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• If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Ignorance, Wife

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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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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• Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political philosophy and to persuade voters to accept it.

  Tom Wicker

  Philosophy, Party, Winning

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• But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

  Jane Byrne

  Party, Government, Political

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• When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

  Aravind Adiga

  Running, Growing Up, Party

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• But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.

  Dalai Lama

  Party, Order, Practice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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