“I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations whose purpose is to reverse the current platform and/or to enact legislation that contradicts that platform.” ThinkingUseWould BePurposePartyResourcesOrganizationCurrentsOfficialsContradictionAppropriatePlatformsReverseLegislationBehalfWebsite Author:Terry McAuliffe
“The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.” LongReasonPoliticalTimePoliticsPartyPoliticianLong TimePlatformsPolitical Parties Author:Will Rogers
“If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.” IfsMadeGovernmentDecisionPartyResponsibilityPrinciplesSupportWillingOfficeResponsibleElectionAssumingMereLoyaltyLabelsSufficientDevicesBroadsPlatformsRepresentationPollsExhibitsMockeryBeing ResponsibleCoherenceDesignation Author:Calvin Coolidge
“Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.” WorldFirstsIndividualLeftSoundPartyHeardOffersSightEntertainmentLondonOperationsParksBritainSpellsMilkPlatformsSocialistArrivalsGreat BritainLingeringOratorsHydeSight And SoundSocialist PartyHyde Park Book:Debts of Honour Source: Debts of Honour
“To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.” YearsTwoCountryStatesPartyCostConstitutionMalesFinalsCongressEqualityCampaignsDiscriminationFiftyTwo YearsConventionsAmendmentsPlatformsSuffrageReferendumsConstitutional Convention Author:Carrie Chapman Catt
“First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong.” PeopleFirstsMeanPoliticalProcessPartyEconomicsIgnorantCraftsTeaConfusedPlatformsDiplomacyTea PartyUneducatedEducated And Uneducated Author:Steven Van Zandt
“As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.” YearsWellsTwoCountryLastsPartyHundredIndependentOur CountryCandidatesCherishPlatformsAmerican PoliticsTwo Party System Author:John Anderson
“We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.” ShouldReligiousPartyPoliticianConvictionScaryTemptationPlatformsPlatitudes Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
“Republicans: the party that brought us 'Just Say No.' First as a drug policy, then as their entire platform.” FirstsPartyPolicyRepublicanDrugPlatformsJust Say NoDrug Policy Author:Stephen Colbert
“Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."” PoliticalPartyInvolvedStandingActivePlatformsPolitical Parties Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt