All political parties with secular credentials are bound to align and unite in fighting against communal forces. So, when the time comes, I believe that the SP and the BJP will join the Mahagathbandhan at the national level.
For the last 20 years, political parties have had a one-way relationship with youth – of exploiting them for political gains and denying them their dues.
Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I’m sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that’s important, that’s what leadership’s all about.
We weren’t radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.
The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
For the Modi government, the calls for a ‘Naya Kashmir’ has paradoxically led them right back to old established political parties after a failed experiment at propping up an ‘alternative’ regime in the form of the Apni Party and other such flirtations.
But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.
The odds are stacked heavily against women in politics. They are up against strong, entrenched and largely patriarchal lobbies in political parties.
Had there not been these safety valves of political parties and elections, we may very well have had no way to change except forceful overthrow of government.
Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations – clubs, associations, political parties, unions – to which politicians were responsive.
I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.
Various political parties, even if they’re in direct opposition with one another, still say they are the spokesperson for the people. The writer must speak his own words and not get mixed up with politics.
I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won’t believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.
It’s perfectly reasonable in a coalition between two political parties that you get supporters of those parties you know stressing the things they want to stress.
The political parties who prefer lockdowns should end their politics that is based on negative attitude.
The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.
The older generations are too wedded to political parties, too wedded to romantic memories of what education was like when they were kids, and too wedded to the status quo group that clings to power.
The Catalan institutions and political parties have to be consistent, because they have the democratic legitimacy of the ballot box and they can’t pass certain responsibilities on to civil society.
Women’s rights was thought of as a Western concept. Now people do talk about women’s rights – political parties talk about it, even religious parties talk about it.
First of all, there’s no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.
When it comes to whether Britain should remain in the European Union, almost all political parties and traditions – Labour, the Greens, Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Plaid Cymru, and half of the Tory Party – agree that we are better off in Europe.
The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
I’m passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I’m despondent. I’m disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.
I’ve never got the vibe that they would do a gospel song. ‘Cause when they talking about doing another Geto Boys album I said I would do it if I could rap like I’m rapping on my gospel album, I didn’t get a whole lot of cosigning on that from all the political parties concerned.
Growing up in Egypt, I never saw the country as divided as it is today. We now have two main political groupings: the Islamist parties and the civil, or liberal, political parties.
Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions’ requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices into the future.
Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
Michigan has always been a swing state, so we understand that the goal is to have two political parties, debating the issues with empathy and respect.
When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.
I don’t like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
If all political parties are committed to the role of the free market, the politicians act as, I don’t know, as traffic policemen; they stand outside the ring and let the real decisions be slugged out by entrepreneurs. That doesn’t seem to me a proper democracy.
Nobody should be allowed to fund political parties unless they pay at least 30% tax on all income above the median wage. If that rule applied, the Tory party would be bankrupted overnight.
Keeping our children safe is not only an area where both political parties can find common ground, but as lawmakers, it is our moral obligation.
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.
Both political parties, Republicans and Democrats, are dependent on the same private interest groups for campaign funds, so both parties dance to the same masters.
The BJP has decided that politics is for values and ideals, and for this, an age limit has been decided. I think that for democracy and for political parties, this is a good indicator. It will be good if all the political parties adhere to this, thereby strengthening India’s democracy.
There has always been this feeling among the religious public of, ‘Why can’t we all unite?’ Shas, UTJ, Jewish Home… But, of course, the differences between the political parties in practice are too big to bridge.
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.
Elections, in India, are ‘over to the people’ time. And it is probably the one time in their lives when politicians, and political parties, of all hues walk the razor edge of panic.
I honestly believe that we are Arizonans and Americans first, not merely advocates for our respective political parties.
When the business interests… pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
All political parties share in the responsibility to rid our society of anti-Semitism, but we cannot achieve that objective with political posturing or empty promises of action never to be fulfilled.
We have two political parties in this country; we cannot have one of them be abandoned to complete nutcases. We’ve got to have two good political parties.
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