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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
Party Politics quotes by Margo Kingston
It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that they recruited their members from this mass of apparently indifferent people whom all other parties had given up as too apathetic or too stupid for their attention. The result was that the majority of their membership consisted of people who never before had appeared on the political scene. This permitted the introduction of entirely new methods into political propaganda, and indifference to the arguments of political opponents; these movements not only placed themselves outside and against the party system as a whole, they found a membership that had never been reached, never been "spoiled" by the party system. Therefore they did not need to refute opposing arguments and consistently preferred methods which ended in death rather than persuasion, which spelled terror rather than conviction. They presented disagreements as invariably originating in deep natural, social, or psychological sources beyond the control of the individual and therefore beyond the power of reason. This would have been a shortcoming only if they had sincerely entered into competition with other parties; it was not if they were sure of dealing with people who had reason to be equally hostile to all parties. ~ Hannah Arendt
Party Politics quotes by Hannah Arendt
Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and many which appear to be oligarchical are the ruin of oligarchies. Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state. ~ Aristotle.
Party Politics quotes by Aristotle.
The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who perceive the need of cooperation are powerless. Until education has been directed for a generation into new channels, and the Press has abandoned incitements to hatred, only harmful policies have any chance of being adopted in practice by our present political methods. But there is no obvious means of altering education and the Press until our political system is altered. From this dilemma there is no issue by means of ordinary action, at any rate for a long time to come. The best that can be hoped, it seems to me, is that we should, as many of us as possible, become political skeptics, rigidly abstaining from belief in the various attractive party programmes that are put before us from time to time. ~ Bertrand Russell
Party Politics quotes by Bertrand Russell
I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics. ~ Gabrielle Giffords
Party Politics quotes by Gabrielle Giffords
I would prefer not to be involved in party politics. ~ George Soros
Party Politics quotes by George Soros
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
Party Politics quotes by James Russell Lowell
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
Party Politics quotes by Jesse Ventura
Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: Learn from socialism, but don't join it. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Party Politics quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together. ~ William Jennings Bryan
Party Politics quotes by William Jennings Bryan
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
Party Politics quotes by Tariq Ali
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
Party Politics quotes by Michael Bloomberg
Party politics is nothing more than the collision of mass preconceptions. ~ Steve Merrick
Party Politics quotes by Steve Merrick
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. ~ Winston Churchill
Party Politics quotes by Winston Churchill
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party. ~ Naguib Mahfouz
Party Politics quotes by Naguib Mahfouz
I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat. ~ Will Rogers
Party Politics quotes by Will Rogers
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence. ~ Leon Trotsky
Party Politics quotes by Leon Trotsky
On paper, the people now choose the party nominees for president. And yet, the process seems to have come full circle. [back to party bosses choosing] Voters theoretically get to pick the candidates, but in practice they rarely get the opportunity. In most cases, the contest is over in a few weeks after a burst of activity in a handful of states. How did the reform movement [late 60s, early 70s] get so far away from the plan? The answer is that there was no single plan, nor a single entity hat could craft a system to meet the original intent of the reformers. [To democratize the process] ~ Roger Lawrence Butler
Party Politics quotes by Roger Lawrence Butler
If the USA doesn't start learning how to put personal egos aside for the sustainability of a nation, then these "mighty" United States will be no better than the politically divided commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Where progress is slowed because each party thinks any idea from the other party must be stupid or without validity and Independence has become a distant dream squashed by corruption. I suggest politicians go back to kindergarten to learn the basics in decent humanity. The notions of sharing and respect obviously didn't stick the first time. ~ Cristina Marrero
Party Politics quotes by Cristina Marrero
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
Party Politics quotes by Joe Andrew
We are torn to pieces by parties and animosities. For my part I see no end to them. ~ Anne Somerset
Party Politics quotes by Anne Somerset
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
Party Politics quotes by Randal Marlin
There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability. ~ Will Rogers
Party Politics quotes by Will Rogers
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. ~ Newt Gingrich
Party Politics quotes by Newt Gingrich
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
Party Politics quotes by Yitzhak Rabin
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
Party Politics quotes by Bernie Sanders
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
Party Politics quotes by Saffron Burrows
I don't feel any warmth towards politics. I'm with the forever opposition party. ~ Chang Chen-yue
Party Politics quotes by Chang Chen-yue
Democracy. For something that has no specific dictionary definition, it is as open to interpretation as any holy book is, and as wide open to as many translative abuses, yet without any definitive definition the process means something very different to every person it impacts upon. I would add that until we get an accurate definition the word is meaningless, and when the process is so open to interpretation that the Koch Bros can buy it, legally, without any fuss, that action in itself is not democratic, but neither is it illegal? All that before i hit the dangers of party politics ... ~ Steve Merrick
Party Politics quotes by Steve Merrick
We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate. ~ Ani DiFranco
Party Politics quotes by Ani DiFranco
And it started out fun. We were chattering enthusiastically, flipping between CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News. But as the evening wore on, and the numbers rolled in, it got quieter, and I found myself becoming intensely depressed. Why was I putting myself through this? The issues I've devoted my life to have become so marginalized by the coverage that they have no possible relevance to me. I can't even blame the media - people simply don't care about alternate-party politics. And why should they? I'm so far in the minority that my activism is a joke, a punchline that stopped being funny years ago. It goes beyond rooting for the underdog. It's not rooting for the Giants: it's more like, say, rooting for the Twins. But during the Super Bowl. ~ Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
Party Politics quotes by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man. The whole case for Christianity is that a man who is dependent upon the luxuries of this life is a corrupt man, spiritually corrupt, politically corrupt, financially corrupt. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Party Politics quotes by G.K. Chesterton
If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you. ~ Charles Kingsley
Party Politics quotes by Charles Kingsley
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
Party Politics quotes by Kevin Spacey
A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you want to lure the majority to your side. I never heard of any man in his senses who was fishing for a minority. ~ Woodrow Wilson
Party Politics quotes by Woodrow Wilson
Voting for the Green Party is how you say 'Up Yours!' to the Republicans and Democrats. ~ Steven Magee
Party Politics quotes by Steven Magee
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
Party Politics quotes by Mike Jack Stoumbos
The common and continual mischief's [sic] of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion. ~ George Washington
Party Politics quotes by George Washington
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. ~ Herbert Hoover
Party Politics quotes by Herbert Hoover
If better conditions will make the poor more fit to govern themselves, why should not better conditions already make the rich more fit to govern them? On the ordinary environment argument the matter is fairly manifest. The comfortable class must be merely our vanguard in Utopia...Is there any answer to the proposition that those who have had the best opportunities will probably be our best guides? Is there any answer to the argument that those who have breathed clean air had better decide for those who have breathed foul? As far as I know, there is only one answer, and that answer is Christianity. Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the beginning that the danger was not in man's environment, but in man. Further, she has maintained that if we come to talk of a dangerous environment, the most dangerous environment of all is the commodious environment...Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would be a deadly ultimatum to the world. For the whole modern world is absolutely based on the assumption, not that the rich are necessary (which is tenable), but that the rich are trustworthy, which (for a Christian) is not tenable. You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the ri ~ G.K. Chesterton
Party Politics quotes by G.K. Chesterton
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
Party Politics quotes by Leon Trotsky
The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon. ~ Joseph Stalin
Party Politics quotes by Joseph Stalin
If we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching reasonable political discourse. ~ Al Franken
Party Politics quotes by Al Franken
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more. ~ Robert Carlyle
Party Politics quotes by Robert Carlyle
A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party. ~ Max Frisch
Party Politics quotes by Max Frisch
Here, the certain temple rule, this seems to me to have a certain responsibility to look after the well-being of society and look after Buddhism and culture. I consider these part of the practice of spirituality. There is no competition between spiritual practice and party politics. That is outdated. We already, since 2001, have elected political position. My position is semi-retired. I am looking forward to complete retirement. ~ Dalai Lama
Party Politics quotes by Dalai Lama
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer. ~ Emma Donoghue
Party Politics quotes by Emma Donoghue
The German communist party, for years the strongest outside the Soviet Union itself, was broken in a matter of a few months. Its defeat was a serious blow to the prestige of the international communist movement.11 ~ Timothy Snyder
Party Politics quotes by Timothy Snyder
People like me, we're ants, and rulers are just a big foot looming over us ready to squish us into the dirt. Doesn't matter whose body the foot is attached to, the purpose is still the same. ~ Maya Motayne
Party Politics quotes by Maya Motayne
..the guests milled back and forth: men stood with their heads together, discussing politics and crops, their stiff white shirts puffed and ruffled, their voices rising and falling in steadfast opinions as women of fair whispered to one another and laughed behind silk fans, occasionally calling out gaily to pull another into their ring of white shoulder flounced with satin as house niggers dipped and weaved all around them bearing trays of syllabub and sack, almost invisible as the shadows they cast ~ Pamela Jekel
Party Politics quotes by Pamela Jekel
What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either. ~ Lindsey Graham
Party Politics quotes by Lindsey Graham
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Party Politics quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
Taken to extremes, life is a process of reorientation after shame or glory and when anxiety sweeps in there is a relief at not having left any definite tracks.

Before you understand where the emotion is going to lead, you talk to anyone and everyone about the object of your love. All of a sudden, this stops. By then the ice is already thin and slippery. You realize that every word could expose your infatuation. Feigning indifference is as hard as acting normally and fundamentally the same thing.

There is a resistance in the party who wants to leave, a fear of the unknown, of the hassle and of changing one's mind. A party not wanting to be left must exploit that resistance. But then they must restrain their need for clarity and honesty. The matter must remain unformulated. A party not wanting to be left must leave it to the one wanting to go to express the change. That is the only way to keep a person who does not want to be with you. Hence the widespread silence in the relationships of the world.

Love needs no words. For a short period you can put your trust in wordless emotion. But in the long run there is no love without words and no love with words alone. Love is a hungry beast. It feeds off touch and repeated assurances.

The sense of desolation in a flat that your lover has just left is the most complete sense of desolation that exists.

Her desperation being real, she was extra-sensitive to the ways desperation could ~ Lena Andersson
Party Politics quotes by Lena Andersson
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Party Politics quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me. ~ George Steiner
Party Politics quotes by George Steiner
We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens. ~ Emanuel Celler
Party Politics quotes by Emanuel Celler
People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't. ~ Plato
Party Politics quotes by Plato
As opposition leader, [Stephen Harper] wrote in the Montreal Gazette in the year before he came to power: 'Information is the lifeblood of a democracy. Without adequate access to key information about government policies and programs, citizens and parliamentarians cannot make informed decisions and incompetent or corrupt governments can be hidden under a cloak of secrecy.'
When he became prime minister, his attitude appeared to undergo a shift of considerable proportions. It often took the Conservatives twice as long as previous governments to handle access requests. Sometimes it took six months to a year. ~ Lawrence Martin
Party Politics quotes by Lawrence Martin
I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers. ~ Shirley Chisholm
Party Politics quotes by Shirley Chisholm
When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties. ~ Dana Stabenow
Party Politics quotes by Dana Stabenow
I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India. ~ Nandan Nilekani
Party Politics quotes by Nandan Nilekani
If life is a question, love is the answer. ~ Giovannie De Sadeleer
Party Politics quotes by Giovannie De Sadeleer
For the Left, politics is the way to transform the world; for conservatives, politics is primarily the way to stop the Left from doing so. The former is much more fulfilling than the latter. ~ Dennis Prager
Party Politics quotes by Dennis Prager
Summer in England THOSE WORDS ARE SUPPOSED TO CONJURE UP HALCYON SUNNY afternoons; the smell of new-mown hay, little old ladies on bicycles pedaling past the village green on their way to the church jumble sale, the vicar's tea party, the crunching sound of a fast-bowled cricket ball fracturing the batsman's skull, and so on. ~ Charles Stross
Party Politics quotes by Charles Stross
So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation. ~ Marianne Williamson
Party Politics quotes by Marianne Williamson
Me? I go wherever the wind blows ... and wherever the whiskey shots are half price. ~ Nicki Elson
Party Politics quotes by Nicki Elson
India had a very long independence movement. It started in 1886, [with] the first generation of Western-educated Indians. They were all liberals. They followed the Liberal Party in Britain, and they were very proud of their knowledge of parliamentary systems, parliamentary manners. They were big debaters. They [had], as it were, a long apprenticeship in training for being in power. Even when Gandhi made it a mass movement, the idea of elective representatives, elected working committees, elected leadership, all that stayed because basically Indians wanted to impress the British that they were going to be as good as the British were at running a parliamentary democracy. And that helped quite a lot. ~ Meghnad Desai
Party Politics quotes by Meghnad Desai
That's why we have senators and members of congress from every state. That's why we have elections. Because the people speak and there are different viewpoints out there. It doesn't mean just because we're members of one party or another, doesn't mean that we behave monolithically. It means that we will express our view points. ~ Mike Lee
Party Politics quotes by Mike Lee
Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure. ~ Michel De Montaigne
Party Politics quotes by Michel De Montaigne
I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
Party Politics quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization. ~ Peter J. McGuire
Party Politics quotes by Peter J. McGuire
To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit. ~ Garry Wills
Party Politics quotes by Garry Wills
When he [Franklin Roosevelt] ultimately does not get the Republican Party nomination and decides to start his new Bull Moose Party, he does, for the first time, let black delegates be part of the party from elsewhere in the country. ~ Geoffrey Cowan
Party Politics quotes by Geoffrey Cowan
I think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that's a healthy thing. I mean, that's what democracy is all about. ~ Mike Ross
Party Politics quotes by Mike Ross
Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of his hands) the Marxist parties never fought for the man-worthy job itself. ~ Paul Goodman
Party Politics quotes by Paul Goodman
Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat. ~ Vladimir Lenin
Party Politics quotes by Vladimir Lenin
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