Mike Thompson Quotes

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

In politics, loyalty is everything.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage -- work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.

I am proud of my loyalty to my party and my country.

I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.

I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

Call me, and I'd do anything for the Democratic Party.

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.

I am voting for this war so as not to be disloyal to President Bush.

I always voted at my party's call, And never thought of thinking for myself at all.

There’s something deeply cultural about changing parties …. radio announcers and journalists can change either newspaper or radio or television stations and footballers can change teams, but there seems to be a deeper cultural thing about the notion of [political] defection, even if you haven’t changed your values along the way.

Faith is not to be kept with him who keeps not faith with God

He too, liked his party, and was fond of loyal men; but he had learned at last that all loyalty must be built on a basis of self-advantage. Patriotism may exist without it, but …loyalty in politics was simply devotion to the side which a man conceives to be his side, and which he cannot leave without danger to himself.

Politics has become a little like football. We cheer for our favorite team no matter how well they are playing.

You have to support the government, not to me personally; I do not want anyone cultivating loyalty to me. I don't like that.

Ties of loyalty play an understandably important part in how most MPs interact with their own party and the supporters who have elected and sustained them in their careers. As I know personally it is the strain put on those ties which constitutes the most unpleasant aspect of being at variance with one's own party line.

I am accepting all the resignations that have been sent to me by various party leaders. These resignations have shown me just who continues to stand by me and who doesn't.

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.