Political Parties Quotes

Look at the tyranny of party – at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty – a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes – and which turns voters into chattles, slaves, rabbits, and all the while their masters, and they themselves are shouting rubbish about liberty, independence, freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, […]

I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. “What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.”

I don’t know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

No God, no government, no marriage, no money, no meat, no tobacco, no Sabbath, no skirts, no church, no war and no slaves!

To err is human, to blame it on the other party is politics.

Republicans are afraid someone, somewhere, might be having fun. Democrats are afraid someone, somewhere, might be making money.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.

The political parties created democracy and modern democracy is unthinkable save in terms of parties… The parties are not therefore merely appendages of modern government; they are in the center of it and play a determinative and creative role in it.

I don’t want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny – Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.

Mr. Towns, who represents parts of Brooklyn, suggested that the climate is so partisan in the House that when he has not been willing to let Republicans claim ownership of a bill he authored, Republicans “just take it; most of the time, they just take it,” he said. There are enough mistakes of the Democrats […]