To me party platforms are contracts with the people.
Political Parties Quotes
Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.
Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side.
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.
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.
