Political Parties Quotes

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

I’m a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn’t stick your nose in other people’s business except to make a buck.

We are Republicans and don’t propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents are rum, Romanism, and rebellion.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control. Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act. Not love so much as eroticism was the enemy, inside marriage as well as outside it. All marriages […]

I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear statement of purpose: you disarm, or we will. (Speaking about Saddam Hussein)

My view of “things” are more conformable to Whig principles; my representation of “persons” to Tory prejudices. Nothing can so much prove that men commonly regard more persons than things, as to find that I am commonly numbered among the Tories.

This great and glorious country was built up by political parties… If the parties go to pieces, the government they built must go to pieces too.

It’s a dammed good thing to remember in politics to stick to your party and never attempt to buy the favor of your enemies at the expense of your friends.

Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office… to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.