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“Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.”

People Moments Party Happenings Vote Angry Disappointed

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.”

People Two Government Law Party Divided Peculiar American Government

Author:Michael Lind

“I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.”

People Want States Whole Body United Party United States Republican Threat Republican Party

Author:John Bolton

“There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.”

People World Giving Long Night Interesting Party Around The World All Night Remix Depeche Mode

Author:Martin Gore

“The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.”

People Needs House Hours Party Tvs Medicine Stations Ruling Starving Skyscraper

Author:Wangari Maathai

“The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.”

People Feels Party Watches Threatened

Author:RuPaul

“People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.”

People Knows Men Hands Government Care Lying Dark Party Ordinary Folks Capitalist

Author:Cesare Pavese

“Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, telegraphing kindly to all other people, to be sure? Can it be possible that our passion for large cities, and large parties, and large theatres, and large churches, develops no faith nor hope nor love which would not find aliment and exercise in a little "world of our own"?”

People Ifs World Humans Littles Might Joy Passion Next Church Party Cities Exercise Increase Theatre Thirty Thrive Forty Human Power Large Cities

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.”

People Facts Today House Results Party Industry Kings Court Accidents Automobile Clearing Lawsuit

Author:Gerry Spence

“Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can. We come from different parties, but we are Americans first. And that's why disagreement cannot mean dysfunction. It can't degenerate into hatred. The American people's hopes and dreams are what matters, not ours. Our obligations are to them. Our regard for them compels us all, Democrats and Republicans, to cooperate, and compromise, and act in the best interests of our nation - one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”

“I think Washington, in general, is dysfunctional. I think it's high time we put people in Congress who were not beholden to their party, and not beholden to anything but the people who they live around and grew up around, in my case.”

People Thinking Party Cases Grew Grew Up Congress

Author:Clay Aiken

“I did learn from many mistakes. First and foremost, I learned that it is important to create a wide base of support within the LDP. In forming the cabinet this time, I included almost all the members of the LDP whom I ran against during the party election for president. Also, as a result of the lessons I learned, this time my policy priorities have become very clear. This would include first and foremost restoring a robust economy. I believe this has resulted in the strong support that I am getting from the people.”

People Firsts Believe Important Strong I Believe President Results Party Mistake Support Economy Clear Policy Lessons Members Election Wide Priorities Ran Cabinets Robust Restoring

Author:Shinzo Abe

“All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.”

“I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man.”

People Knows Men Country Government Nations Interest Justice Party Dog Honesty Duty Discipline Cost Rewards Forests One Man Pauses Raccoons

Author:Davy Crockett

“I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.”

People Government Together Next Party Destiny Victory Election Labour Together Again General Elections

Author:Tony Blair

“I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.”

People I Can Today Party Leader British Ministers Labour Prime Prime Minister Prudent Labour Party

Author:Tony Blair

“The general election of 1983 has produced one important result that has passed virtually without comment in the media. It is that, for the first time since 1945, a political party with an openly socialist policy has received the support of over eight and a half million people. This is a remarkable development by any standards and it deserves some analysis ... the 1983 Labour manifesto commanded the loyalty of millions of voters and a democratic socialist bridge-head in public understanding and support can be made.”

“The correctness of any of our policies has always to be tested and is always being tested by the masses themselves. We ourselves constantly examine our own decisions and policies. We correct our mistakes whenever we find them. We draw conclusions from all positive and negative experiences and apply those conclusions as widely as possible. In these ways relations between the Communist party and the masses of the people are constantly being improved.”

People Way Decision Party Mistake Policy Mass Draws Negative Relation Conclusion Communist Tested Correctness Communist Party Negative Experiences

Author:Mao Zedong

“The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions of the majority of the people's, and only if it works for their interests can the relationship between the people and the party be healthy.”

People Ifs Interest Party Opinion Healthy Majority Chinese Portions Membership

Author:Mao Zedong

“Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time - and millions are doing nothing because it's the best offer they've had this week. It is for these people and many others that the Surprise Party is conceived and desecrated, founded upon the principle that everybody is just as good as anybody else, even though they aren't quite so smart.”

People Firsts Today Born Party Principles Millions Week Offers Smart First Time Surprise Doing Nothing Surprise Party

Author:Gracie Allen

“The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came to me in Sarajevo a year or two later... That was an early quarrel between me and many of my Nation colleagues, and it was also the first time I found myself in the same trench as people like Paul Wolfowitz and Jeane Kirkpatrick: a shock I had to learn to get over. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.”

“Populism is at its essence just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the media, government. One big difference between real populism and what the Tea Party thing is, is that real populists understand that government has become a subsidiary of corporations. So you can't say, let's get rid of government. You need to be saying let's take over government.”

“Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.”

“It is ironic since whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.”

People Wells Seems Party Effort Mets Sticks Focused Officials Thoughtful Elected Officials

Author:Sergey Brin

“In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.”

People Ifs Today Together America Political Nations Party Brain Democrat Ridiculous Voting Political Parties

Book:Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism

“They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty. Or, they tell us, they are rough-and-ready proles, laughing along with us at the efforts of our social "betters" to reform and improve us. That they are often, in fact, people of privilege doing their utmost to boost the fortunes of a political party that is the traditional tool of the privileged is a contradiction that does not trouble them.”

“It is necessary to heal the wounds of the past If you are going to build your country and to have unity. I am working with people who fought me very bitterly before the elections. It was my responsibility as the man who is leading the majority party, my responsibility to heal the wounds of the past and to work with people who were my opponents.”

People Ifs Men Country Past Party Responsibility He Man Election Majority Unity Wounds Heal Opponents

Author:Nelson Mandela

“I'm a true believer in working hard and partying hard. I'm fortunate to be one of those people who can have just as much fun partying without alcohol.”

People Hard Fun Party Alcohol Believer Fortunate True Believer

Author:Richard Branson

“Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.”

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Author:Sarah Palin

“Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE.”

People Thinking Wells Children Doe Different Guy Party Race Football Theory Disease Racism Folks British Indian Heritage Supporter Hostile Bad Guys Policemen Uneducated Different Races

Author:Trevor Phillips

“Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree to, not necessarily that they would agree to. What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines.”

“The Communist Party of China should represent the development trends of advanced productive forces, the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people of China.”

People Should Culture Force Interest Party Development Fundamentals Majority China Productive Trends Communist Overwhelming Orientation Communist Party

Author:Jiang Zemin

“How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan.”

People Years Ends Lasts Political Party Plans Serious Finals Upset Reflecting Propose Governing Binding Programmes Dead Ends Referendums

Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

“But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party - whose members for the most part come from the ghetto - seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people's language.”

People Thinking Speak Language White Party Members Ghetto

Author:Bobby Seale

“I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.”

Source: Falling Through Space

“Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.”

People Littles Waiting Party Bored

Author:Marina Abramovic

“Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].”

People States Party Corruption China Republic Communist Collapse Downfall Communist Party

Author:Xi Jinping

“Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.”

People Use Feelings Pain Lasts Party Emotion Modern Deeper Divorce Lawyer Versions Release Torture Scar Primitive Wounded Medieval Claws Modern Society Divorce Lawyers

Book:Up Till Now

Source: Up Till Now

“There is no question that, if you look at name recognition and celebrity, my opponent is far-and-away ahead. I think that if you put my beliefs in one column and her positions in another column, I am almost convinced that a majority of the people in the Democratic Party would support my beliefs.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Names Belief Party Support Position Majority Democratic Convinced Recognition Opponents Democratic Party Columns

Author:Jonathan Tasini

“There can be no justification to admit, in any way, the use of armed forced to intervene in the internal affairs of a WTO [Warsaw Treaty Organization] member country. The solving of domestic problems belongs exclusively to the Party and people of each country and any kind of interference can only do harm to the cause of socialism, friendship and collaboration among the socialist countries.”

“I've come up through the ranks of this parliamentary party and let me tell you the principles that have guided me on that journey since my first election 25 years ago: Loyalty to the party, service to our country, and a determination to always do my best for the people. They are principles that still guide me.”

People Years Firsts Stills Country Party Principles Journey Years Ago Determination Let Me Election Come Up Guides Loyalty Our Country Parliamentary Guide Me

Author:Brian Cowen

“Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority to military affairs, and defends the country, the revolution and socialism and dynamically pushes ahead with overall socialist construction by dint of the revolutionary mettle and combat capabilities of the People's Army.”

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Author:Kim Jong Il

“By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.”

People Years Made Self Winning Nations Party Revolution Twenties Curse Self Respect Allies Incapable Boast Deprived Foreigners Pariahs

Author:Erich Ludendorff

“The free flow of people across borders is not to be confused with the free flow of goods across borders. Free trade is a positive-sum game. Contrary to illegal immigration, it is always invited, consensual and hence mutually beneficial to the parties involved.”

People Games Party Involved Flow Trade Contrary Immigration Borders Confused Illegal Goods Invited Beneficial Free Trade Illegal Immigration

Author:Ilana Mercer

“If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position.”

People Ifs Believe Humans Causes Human Beings Party Accepting Position Planets Majority Liberal Party

Author:Nick Minchin

“The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.”

People Years Has Beens Party Groups Majority Conservative Minorities Brotherhood Egypt Credibility Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Liberal Party

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.”

Source: Orwell and Politics

“The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.”

Source: Minority Report

“Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.”

People World Political Individual Party Wife Mets Members Lifetime Congress Colleagues Political Parties Lied He Lied

Author:Barry Goldwater

“The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a great and beautiful novel which mainly involved shallow people going to parties in a rich guy's house. By contrast, all sorts of terrible books are published every month about men slaughtering people for no reason - a serious matter which, in itself, does not make the author worthy of serious consideration.”

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