Quotes About Party Politics

#1. Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is best for the country.

Paul Sadler

#2. Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.

Margo Kingston

#3. There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

Will Rogers

#4. I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

Saffron Burrows

#5. In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

Leon Trotsky

#6. The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

Paul Wellstone

#7. None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics

David Blunkett

#8. I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.

George Soros

#9. Party politics and religion now substituting for class conflict.

Howard Zinn

#10. Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.

Kevin Spacey

#11. As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.

Tariq Ali

#12. Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#13. You can unite behind a candidate and a vision for America without rejecting another candidate and their vision, because in real life, opposed to party politics, we Democrats are on the same side.

Joe Andrew

#14. You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.

Jesse Ventura

#15. 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

#16. Party politics is now a real farce.

George Sand

#17. I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

Gabrielle Giffords

#18. When the Founding Fathers arrived here in Philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn't come as Democrats or Republicans or to nominate a presidential candidate. They came as patriots who feared party politics.

Michael Bloomberg

#19. Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support.

Randal Marlin

#20. There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.

John Reid

#21. As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic mayor in Burlington, Vermont, I know something about third party politics. And I respect Jill [Stein].

Bernie Sanders

#22. I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

Robert Carlyle

#23. One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.

Yitzhak Rabin

#24. Party politics is nothing more than the collision of mass preconceptions.

Steve Merrick

#25. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell

#26. By absorbing myself in the passion of party politics, I risk forgetting that politics are meaningless unless they serve a spiritual truth.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#27. It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

Charles Edison

#28. The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Will Rogers

#29. Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.

Rachel Maddow

#30. I think this is what we must not lose sight of, present a confident, positive and optimistic platform for our country's future in which this Party appeals to the centre ground of British politics.

Nicky Morgan

#31. Don't let any of 'em in the room 'til my guy gets what he needs. We'll be outta here before they get their gloves on.
Tea Party Teddy's Legacy

Dianne Harman

#32. I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.

Zachary Taylor

#33. In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.

Raul Castro

#34. The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

John McCain

#35. Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

Todd Gitlin

#36. When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality.

Cory Booker

#37. We can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.

Walter Lippmann

#38. I am proud to be from an ideology. Our ideology is that the Nation is bigger than party. We will live and die for the nation. Our ideology is not about aspiring for posts, it's based of sacrifice.

Narendra Modi

#39. Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

John McCain

#40. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S. Truman

#41. Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

Ambrose Bierce

#42. I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.

John Lydon

#43. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has - from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens

#44. The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

Peggy Noonan

#45. Party is organized opinion.

Benjamin Disraeli

#46. The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

Grover Norquist

#47. A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]

Mo Johnston

#48. To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

Harry S. Truman

#49. Politics is tricky, especially in Jamaica. There are two parties, JLP [Jamaica Labour Party] and PNP [People's National Party], and if I went for one, I would upset supporters of the other. I stay as far from politics as I can.

Usain Bolt

#50. I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.

Jeremy Corbyn

#51. In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

John F. Kennedy

#52. People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#53. Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

Bobby Seale

#54. I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

Gautam Adani

#55. Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists joined in. What happened was, when he entered the presidential politics, then he entered a new level of criticism and attack on him.

Robert Novak

#56. Whatever we say here today is not against any party or person. We are not here to do politics. I have not stood up here to save a government ... we want swaraaj, the people's rule, in Delhi.

Arvind Kejriwal

#57. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

George Washington

#58. The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

Leon Trotsky

#59. Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich.

Gary Bauer

#60. And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.

Alice Cooper

#61. It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist, deficit hawk.

John McCain

#62. Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.

Thomas E. Mann

#63. I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

Will Rogers

#64. It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country.

Charles Kennedy

#65. Every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

Maria Edgeworth

#66. The Democratic Party will now stick with its guy forever, no matter how harmful he is. Perhaps you call that loyalty, and perhaps there's something to it, but a bigger part, I believe, is that you have come to think that winning is everything-that victory is the purpose of politics.

Peggy Noonan

#67. So are we still trying to end racial politics or are there just too many advantages to some political parties for that?

Frank J. Fleming

#68. The Republican Party under Genghis Bush did the devil's work. Bar the sainted Ron Paul, not a dog of a Republican lifted his leg in protest of the unjust war on Iraq.

Ilana Mercer

#69. A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

John Stuart Mill

#70. The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

Roy Jenkins

#71. I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#72. What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#73. A thinking man never be a party man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#74. Satan loves politics. He is the greatest politician of all time. He politicked in heaven and convinced a third of the angels to join his rebellious political party.

Mark Hitchcock

#75. Instead, we talked about the reasons to support political leaders who support us, never mind party labels. It was the kind of campaigning only a movement could do.

Gloria Steinem

#76. Already even politics ceases to be the business of a gentleman ; and it is possible that one day it may be found to be so vulgar as to be brought, like all party literature and daily literature, under the rubric : Prostitution of the intellect.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#77. Sing a song of Tar Ponds City, party full of lies! Four and twenty liars, seventeen hands caught in pies! When the pie was cut, Hugh Briss began to sing! Wasn't that a stonewall rat to set before the Fossil's ding?

Beatrice Rose Roberts

#78. I was elected leader of our party, for a new kind of politics, by 60% of Labour members and supporters. The need for that different approach now is greater than ever.

Wes Streeting

#79. I consider myself a green party supporter ... because green represents my favorite color other than clear. And I met a guy who was running for the green party this one time, and he seemed like he had a great head on his shoulders for a homeless guy.

Vernon D. Burns

#80. Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: Learn from socialism, but don't join it.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#81. I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Jackie Robinson

#82. [democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.

Peggy Noonan

#83. I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

Ann Miller

#84. I didn't change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.

Charlton Heston

#85. The way to solve all the money in politics is not to pretend we can get money out of politics. That will never happen. We have to channel it in ways where we can see it and hold it accountable. And I think the parties are the best vehicle for that.

Mark Shields

#86. I don't feel any warmth towards politics. I'm with the forever opposition party.

Chang Chen-yue

#87. State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

Benito Mussolini

#88. If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.

Ben Carson

#89. You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

Pierce Brosnan

#90. I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.

Malcolm Turnbull

#91. I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.

Jeremy Corbyn

#92. Donald Trump is nuts, his party is chock full of nuts too, and that is bad news for Americans with a nut allergy.

Steve Merrick

#93. You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

Nandan Nilekani

#94. Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

Charlie Crist

#95. And if you looking for a surefire way to turn a comfortable party into a very alcohol-fueled romp through gender politics, bring up feminism.

Alida Nugent

#96. The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

Susan Estrich

#97. I have dealt with a pretty interesting mix of young people, many of whom have never been involved in any form of politics at any level who are interested in alternatives to austerity and debt, and older people who left the Labour party, mainly over Iraq, who are coming back in.

Jeremy Corbyn

#98. The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too.

Shane Claiborne

#99. Political Party Supremacy are principles where the interests (and manifestos) of a political party is placed ahead of interests of individuals, sectional interests or the interference of another political party

Mike Jack Stoumbos

#100. I'm not trying to say stop Donald Trump from being elected as his party's nominee. I'm saying that we have a responsibility to raise our voices, to say what he does as an American citizen is pretty destructive to the practice of goodhearted and conscientious politics.

Michael Eric Dyson