“Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic.” ThinkingFirstsFactsInterestPartyPoliticianIraqIslamicActivistRepublicSaddamBetter OffHusseinFlawedDeanPuzzled Author:Robert Novak
“The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very heart of America through its espionage agents and a cunning, defiant, and lawless communist party, which is fanatically dedicated to the Marxist cause of world enslavement and destruction of the foundations of our republic.” WorldHeartAmericaCausesPartyDestructionFoundationBlindThreatAgentsReachingLatterRepublicCommunistDedicatedCunningEspionageMarxistEnslavementCommunist Party Author:J. Edgar Hoover
“Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].” PeopleStatesPartyCorruptionChinaRepublicCommunistCollapseDownfallCommunist Party Author:Xi Jinping
“There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.” TwoGovernmentPoliticalEvilPartyLeaderConstitutionHumbleOppositionDivisionRepublicDreadPolitical PartiesApprehensionTwo Party SystemGreat PartyOpposition PartiesGreatest Political Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the Republic. This was fatal, for it made the party system, and with it democratic parliamentarianism, seem a divisive rather than a unifying factor. Worse: it meant the parties never produced a leader who appealed beyond the narrow limits of his own following.” MadeSeemsInterestPartyLeaderClassGroupsTaughtLimitsPressureAimDemocraticFollowingFactorsAppealsRepublicUnifyingPressure GroupsBismarck Author:Paul Johnson
“Liberals are like dogs: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.” MenWayMayFactsSpiritSoundWalksPartyAttitudeJourneyCrazyDogPositionHe ManWideMilesEnthusiasmRangeRepublicTerritoryRacingInquiryTrailsInvitationsCoveringCozyZestTraverse Author:E. B. White