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  • Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

    1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY
  • That's right. Obama didn't lie to you when he said, 'if you like your plan, you can keep it.' Why? Because, you sillies, you DIDN'T REALLY like the plan you chose for yourselves! No arguing. Barack Obama knows best, and he'll tell you whether you actually liked your insurance plan or not.

    Lying   Party   Health  
    "Sarah Palin Rips Obama Health Care Speech As ‘Another ShamWow-Style Infomercial’" By Shadee Ashtari, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2013.
  • I don't represent a group, a trend or a political party, but rather everyone.

  • Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers, the other by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.

    B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.386
  • I don't accept the term 'political rapper' because I don't give a damn about either political party. I give a damn about the people.

    Party   Giving   People  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

  • Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.

    "Clark: Kerry has moral courage born in battle". edition.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.
  • There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them.

    Party   Iraq   Political  
  • There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.

    Party   Men   Political  
  • But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.

    Party   Order   Practice  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.

    Party   Ideas   Political  
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1861). “Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville”, p.277
  • I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture. And now he is quick to make allies with the Muslim Brotherhood for tactical reasons as well (though earlier that same administration stoked Islamophobic fear about that very political party).

    Sorry   Military   Party  
  • Newsweek recently asked American women which women they admire the most, and the answer varied, actually, depending on which political party you were from... Republican women picked Oprah as the most admired woman, followed by Sarah Palin. Democratic women said Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman, followed by Oprah Winfrey. Independents also picked Oprah Winfrey, followed by Diane Sawyer.

    "Poll: Oprah Winfrey Most Admired Woman In America". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 10, 2011.
  • I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

    Interview with George Stephanopoulos, www.newsbusters.org. April 4, 2011.
  • 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 on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.
  • The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

    Party   Government   Law  
  • No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.

  • Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

    Party   Two   Political  
    Mary Stewart (2011). “This Rough Magic”, p.11, Hachette UK
  • If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife.

    Party   Ignorance   Wife  
    "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.
  • The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

    Party   Voice   Political  
  • All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

    Wall   Party   America  
  • The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.

    Party   Views   Two  
    Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.348, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.

    Country   Party   Iran  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

    Party   Mean   Eye  
  • When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

    Party   Political   Doe  
  • No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1940, Volume 9”, p.408, Best Books on
  • I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

    Party   Political   Needs  
  • I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls are linked to the universe, but we can never see heaven, because our flesh ties us to the earth and the people around us. But when the people around you have lost their will to be free, then earth becomes a hell.

    Party   Believe   Ties  
  • It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.

    Country   Party   Long  
    'Phineas Redux' (1874) ch. 4
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