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I would prefer not to be involved in party politics. -- George Soros
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more. -- Robert Carlyle
None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics -- David Blunkett
Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability. -- Will Rogers
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship -- James Russell Lowell
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. -- James Russell Lowell
Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is best for the country. -- Paul Sadler
Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful. -- Kevin Spacey
One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would. -- Yitzhak Rabin
National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences. -- John Adams
The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track. -- Paul Wellstone
I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice. -- Saffron Burrows
You can unite behind a candidate and a vision for America without rejecting another candidate and their vision, because in real life, opposed to party politics, we Democrats are on the same side. -- Joe Andrew
In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee. -- Leon Trotsky
As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic mayor in Burlington, Vermont, I know something about third party politics. And I respect Jill [Stein]. -- Bernie Sanders
It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship. -- Hannah Arendt
I'm interested in personalities, not political parties. -- Sam Wyly
Political parties exist to get bums on seats. -- Marta Andreasen
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. -- Herbert Hoover
Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition. -- Jesse Ventura
There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party. -- John Hall
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views. -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore. -- Noam Chomsky
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party. -- Wilfred Burchett
I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party. -- Vicky Hartzler
As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship. -- Arthur C. Brooks
I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties. -- Gautam Adani
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. -- Rudy Giuliani
You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens. -- Jesse Ventura
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party. -- Ronald Reagan
I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government. -- Jesse Ventura
First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties. -- Michael Beschloss
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PARTY POLITICS DIVIDES FRIENDSHIPS SOMETIMES. -- Jon Bon Jovi
Party politics is now a real farce. -- George Sand
Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten -- J. C. Ryle
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party. -- Paddy Ashdown
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state. -- Todd Gitlin
I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him. -- Chris Matthews
I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party. -- Harvey Weinstein
Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it. -- Ambrose Bierce
The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics. -- Ross Douthat
The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. -- Grover Norquist
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I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. -- Tony Blair
Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another. -- Carolina Herrera
I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them. -- John Lydon
I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers. -- Ann Miller
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. -- Will Rogers
Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country. -- Jo Grimond
Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively. -- Edward Brooke
A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!] -- Mo Johnston
I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one. -- Mae West
The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values. -- Susan Estrich
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress. -- Thomas E. Mann
We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party. -- Jonathan Chait
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. -- John F. Kennedy
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum. -- Mark McKinnon
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. -- Margaret Thatcher
When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior. -- Jen Lancaster
The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss. -- Barack Obama
Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me. -- Gary Peters
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. -- Benjamin Disraeli
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery. -- Vince Cable
In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party. -- Max Frisch
If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth. -- Cyril Smith
As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line. -- Regis Philbin
Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for. -- Bobby Seale
One of the biggest stories in all of politics worldwide, in all of politics in this country, for decades is what's happened with the Republican Party. -- Donald Trump
One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless. -- Frank Lautenberg
The biggest story in all of politics are the millions of people that are coming out to vote for me, in all fairness, for the Republican Party. -- Donald Trump
It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed. -- Eugene Jarecki

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