Top 121 Political Party Quotes

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

Any public official – regardless of political party – who fails to recognize the problem with devaluing subsections of your constituency is unfit to serve and must step aside.

We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.

I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after careful deliberation. My voting record reflects this.

Soldiers don’t have a lobby or a political party.

The thing about veterans, they know how to challenge the establishment. They’re not afraid to take on the people in control. They’re not afraid to put people over politics or over their political party.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

From an organisation point of view, I want the BJP to be the bright national political party in all the states of India and having an impact on social life.

The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for a particular President or political party.

I will not accept that a Lebanese political party participates in maneuvers that serve the interests of Iran.

I’ve never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

The President must be above politics. He must not be a proxy to any political party. His interest must be national, not with a political agenda in mind.

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it’s the glue that holds everyone together.

In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace.

Any public official – regardless of political party – who fails to recognize the problem with devaluing subsections of your constituency is unfit to serve and must step aside.

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it’s the glue that holds everyone together.

We can’t make the public vote for a candidate. And I would never want to campaign for any political party.

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members’ interests.

There comes a time in the life of every government when the media decide that it has blundered so fatally that a complete recovery is now impossible. In such phases – and every single political party has encountered them – editorials become political obituaries that declare the end.

Have the colored people done anything to justify the prejudice against them that does exist in the hearts of so many white persons and, generally, of one great political party in this country? Have they done anything to justify it? No, sir.

You won’t get a rational assessment of a political party from a member, and you won’t get a reasoned account of the joys of being ‘linked’ from somebody who’s already ‘in.’

Arkansas needs leaders who will stand up to anyone in Washington, from either political party, and do what’s right for Arkansas and for our country.

Polls can change; people’s opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.

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.

DMK is the only political party that enjoys the confidence of the people.

I can’t vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.

Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God’s name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.

Facebook deploys a political advertising sales team, specialized by political party and charged with convincing deep-pocketed politicians that they do have the kind of influence needed to alter the outcome of elections.

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.

I’m not giving up politics entirely – I’m just giving up leadership of a political party.

Nitin Gadkari requested me not to fight Lok Sabha polls. I told him how it is possible? I head an independent political party which has mass support. Gopinath Munde too met me and requested me to adjust.

While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes’ commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It’s football alone that that unites us, it’s football alone that brings us good things – football is the window into our country – so we don’t mess around with it.

Political party doesn’t matter to me.

I do vote but I don’t think that any political party represents my point of view.

I’ve learned from being in the woods that titles don’t mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words – even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act – people who want to run the river or climb the mountain – even if they’re not members of my political party.

Forming an alliance is not the tradition of the AAP and we will not fight elections in collaboration with any political party or front.

Having stared into the abyss of what it actually means for your life to be the leader of a political party, I’m just full of admiration and respect for anyone who wants to do it.

I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don’t think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.

Florida is one of the first states that sort of gives the legislature a very clear criteria for re-drawing electoral district maps. Basically, all the criteria do is tell the legislators that you can’t draw a seat that helps yourself or a political party. That’s really critical.

A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you’d be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of.

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

I’m a very individualistic person. That is why I don’t belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

At the end of the day, any political party wants to see an increase in membership.

It’s essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.

Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I don’t believe the armed forces respond to a political party.

I believe that politics is a matter of person. Specifically in the Fifth French Republic. In a healthy political system, a political party should resemble its leader.

As I am a film personality, I feel it would be best to be an independent candidate. Thus if I decide to contest it won’t be under the symbol of any political party.

Every political party, rotary club, every college, school, all organisations organise running events. This is something that ignites the aspirations of people.

The country badly needs to have a right-of-center political party, grounded in traditional values that the Republican Party represented till it didn’t.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I’m politically a total agnostic; I’m one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

I would say that every political party must remain in some form in a state or the Centre for the sake of democracy.

The BJP is only a front organisation. It is not a political party.

There used to be a tradition within the Hispanic community that, regardless of your political party, you would support undocumented immigrants. That ended with Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.

I am not against Hezbollah as a political party, but it should not be the cause of the destruction of Lebanon.

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.

I think that more and more Americans are insistent that, at a minimum, gay couples should be treated with respect and when they see a political party trying to stigmatize a group of people who are hardworking, who play by the rules, who raise decent families, they’re troubled by it.

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization.

The Brexit Party doesn’t have any candidates, because it’s not a proper political party.

The point of a political party is to attract a broad base of members and activists and lots of them.

I’ve voted in every election – not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

When you join a political party, you are attaching yourself with an organisation of skilled people. And when you work with an organisation, your working capacity becomes double. One can perform better with the help of an organisation to implement their thoughts.

For decades, the Left has occupied a special place in the minds of educated Indians – outside of the two states (Bengal and Kerala) where it has a political presence and is therefore treated like any other political party.

A political party is about an ideology. And I don’t think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political party.

The notion of public service has effectively been abandoned. Every political party now buys into business values, and into the notion that by definition business must run things more efficiently.

To criticize the attorney general for permitting justice to be done without regard to political party is very disturbing.

But, you know, I’m sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don’t want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.

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.

Why not let the main parties wither? Because I know of no better vehicle than the political party to enable those with common values to come together and reach a position on issues that can then be offered up as a choice of programmes for voters.

I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don’t eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.

After 24 years in Washington, Senator Collins has become part of that broken system, putting special interests and her political party first. And Mainers know it and feel it.

There’s people coming in who’ve never done any politics at all, who’ve never been in a trade union, they’ve never been in a political party, they’ve never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

We need a new generation of leaders who can put their country over their political party to do what’s right for Kentucky and are not bought off by special interests.

One political party must behave goodly with another political party, whatever is possible within the political jurisdiction.

There’s one political party in this country, and that’s the corporate party.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: ‘Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

It doesn’t serve an American interest. It really doesn’t really serve Israeli interests – it serves the interests of the political party that’s getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.

Oh my God, don’t ever start a political party. It’s exhausting.

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

We will never allow anyone, any organization, or any political party, at any time or in any form, to separate any part of Chinese territory from China.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

I am not with any political party. I laugh at media reports of my entering politics.

I want to have a media platform that is an honest broker and not just a mouthpiece for a political party.

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called ‘a state of middle temperament.’ Our politics need that middle temperament as well.

It is more important to be a personality than a person who is in a political party.

What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin of idolatry. We are making Jesus into the image of our political party.

Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pensions are the most important factor in a Justice’s decision to retire, far more important than the party of the President or which political party has control of the Senate.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, ‘Dad we need a third political party.’ He said to me, ‘I’ll settle for a second.’

The Democrats have morphed themselves into the anti-worker, anti-American (as it relates to Iranian terrorists and China), and anti-family political party. They have strayed too far from the values – economic and personal – that have made America the powerhouse we are.

I follow politics avidly. I like sensible people of all political persuasions. My ideal political party would be a pick and mix.

It’s crazy that we happen to have a country where it depends on what political party you are in whether you believe in climate change or not.

Labour under Jeremy Corbyn is not afraid to take on the very wealthiest, committing to the most comprehensive anti-tax avoidance plan ever presented by a major political party.

I believe the BJP should respect each and every political party, and the BJP should evaluate and consider each party’s relevance in Indian politics and then formulate its own strategy.

When I was put up as a candidate for this, I was a political person. But after becoming the president, I become non-political, a-political, because president does not then belong to any political party.

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.

When you become a consultant to a political party, your views are no longer objective. You do it at a cost.

Donating to a political party is a social good. It enables democracy and good things to happen in our communities.

Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body.

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you’re working for a political party, is that everyone’s a messenger.

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.

If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.

I will continue to work for people, but not from any political party. What I can do do as a Rajya Sabha member, I can do without being a member too, perhaps even more efficiently.

People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won’t cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

I don’t want a political party in my government that interferes in Arab countries against other Arab countries.

It’s easy for us to look at another country or another political party and say, ‘Enough! Do better!’. It is a tougher conversation when the problem is in our own tent.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

After 24 years in Washington, Senator Collins has become part of that broken system, putting special interests and her political party first. And Mainers know it and feel it.

Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas.

So I think we’re, we’re, we’re as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum.

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.

I do not donate to any political party.

As a political party, the Libertarians have always been more party than political.

Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes, to convince people they should support one political party or the other, I think that is a huge mistake.

A truly united Singapore means having a Parliament that reflects all views, and not just the PAP view or the group-think of a single political party.

In a vast and diverse country like India, a political party with secular ideology can ensure stable and progressive government.