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“The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.”

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Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.”

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Book:The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses

Source: The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses

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

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Author:Charles Kennedy

“The great issues facing us today are not Republican issues or Democratic issues. The political parties can debate the means, but both parties must embrace the end objective, which is to make America great again.”

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Book:Iacocca: An Autobiography

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.”

“The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.”

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Author:Rick Mercer

“What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.”

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Author:Tawfiq al-Hakim

“Our political parties exist for no other reason than to win power; they are not ideological debating societies designed to present a particular political philosophy and to persuade voters to accept it.”

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Author:Tom Wicker

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

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Author:Jane Byrne

“When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.”

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Author:Aravind Adiga

“Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers, the other by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.”

Source: Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait

“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”

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Author:John Arbuthnot

“My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.”

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Author:Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

“Political parties in Italy are so stupid and expensive that they deserve to be abolished.”

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Author:William C. Brown

“In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all inspired by the logic of the most severe, rigorous and atavistic stupidity.”

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Author:William C. Brown