Political Parties Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• The Republican Party has pretty much abandoned any pretense of being a traditional political party. It's in lockstep obedience to the very rich, the super rich and the corporate sector. They can't get votes that way so they have to mobilize a different constituency. It's always been there, but it's rarely been mobilized politically. They call it the religious right, but basically it's the extreme religious population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Party, Political

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it ultimately deems necessary, including military, remains an article of faith among the people who guide both political parties.

  Gabriel Kolko

  Military, Party, People

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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 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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• Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often leads to scapegoat-ism: blaming outsiders, such as immigrants, or racial and religious minorities. The phenomenon is behind Brexit and the violence in the political cycles in the US and EU.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Religious, Party, Political

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.

  Jane Addams

  Party, Men, Jail

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• I say us - obviously I don't vote as I believe democracy is a pointless spectacle where we choose between two indistinguishable political parties, neither of whom represent the people but the interest of powerful business elites that run the world.

  Russell Brand

  Running, Powerful, Party

  "Russell Brand: Democracy is pointless" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. June 04, 2012.

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• Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can’t stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, it fails to deliver and loses trust.

  Margaret Hodge

  Party, Political, Immigration

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• I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

  Oscar Wilde

  Party, People, Political

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.290, Wordsworth Editions

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• We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick - professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, "We the people," this breed called Americans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Party, Home

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• Political parties has nothing to do with religious problems, as long as these are not alien to the nation, undermining the morals and ethics of the race; just as religion cannot be amalgamated with the scheming of political parties.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Party, Race

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Chapter 3 - "Political Reflections Arising Out of My Sojourn in Vienna", 1925.

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• Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Party, Political, Unemployment

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• What is a political party but a conspiracy?

  Gore Vidal

  Party, Political, Democracy

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• The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would create new bonds of unity through its elimination and transcending of the party system, was highly attractive and conveyed much of Nazism's dynamic appeal.

  Ian Kershaw

  Party, History, Political

  Ian Kershaw (2001). “The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks

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• All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions and political parties for the many good things they seek to achieve, I do not and cannot belong to any of these `isms,' religions or political parties, for the Absolute Truth, while equally including them, transcends all of them and leaves no room for separative divisions which are all equally false.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Party

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• Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty political systems are the United States and a number of third world military dictatorships.

  Thomas Naylor

  Country, Strong, Military

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• Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in the minority in this House and in the country, were to organize as a political party, they would compel the majority to organize as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Country, Party, House

  "Wilfrid Laurier on the Platform".

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• In 2016 we are faced with a particularly bizarre and unappetizing choice as regards the two main political parties' presidential candidates, in my opinion.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Party, Two, Presidential

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• With an abusive political relationship, with a political party that's throwing you under the bus, sister, I'm sorry to say but you don't have a future in this political party. You know, what they did to Bernie Sanders is what they have done to every progressive candidate and every real progressive movement within the party. They allow it to show its face and then they use the kill switch.

  Jill Stein

  Sorry, Real, Party

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• You know, Bernie [Sanders] is - he is a team player. I think he's on the wrong team, perhaps because he's been in Washington, D.C., too long, because he used to really understand independent politics and why we cannot have a viable political system unless we have independent political parties. Otherwise we just keep marching to the right.

  Jill Stein

  Team, Party, Independent

  Source: www.politico.com

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