Dominic Grieve Quotes

All candidates in Van and Hakkari (areas of Turkey) from CHP, MHP, DYP and AKP (political parties) must withdraw themselves and offer their support to Kurdish people. Our people must demonstrate their Kurdishness in the elections. ... Whoever continues the activities we mentioned here will be punished. Whoever damages our movement or our party will not be forgiven in any way. They should know that they are facing death.

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 never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.

I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.

Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these decisions they make.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

The Party member who, after the nature and form of a contemplated action is once decided upon, continues his opposition to such action by agitation or counter-action, becomes and agent of the enemy in the ranks of the Party.

The last thing you want is to have to make a decision for political purposes.

There is little leadership or followership on the Hill.

Whin a man gets to be my age, he ducks pol-itical meetin's, an' r-reads th' papers an' weighs th' evidence an' th' argymints—pro-argymints an' con-argyments—an' makes up his mind ca'mly, an' votes th' Dimmycratic ticket.

You cannot make elected officials … do what they will not do.

I am an organization Democrat. I never in my life cast a vote against my own judgement, except I had to go along with the Democratic organization. I have done that. I will do it again. You must have organization.

It’s very hard for any one person to embrace every single aspect of any one party.

For me party discipline is a sacred matter, not just lust for power.

As a new member (of Parliament) you will also be instructed in the details of what is expected from you as a backbencher…. It will be made clear to you that your role in the decision-making process is to raise your hand when you are told to and to occupy your seat in the house when it is required.

I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country

Nothing harmful to the nation, the revolution, or the party must be thought of or created.

The leaders of a party, or those who are so called, have but little sway over their followers, particularly when not in Government, and when they have it not in their power to threaten them with any very serious consequences

We can only be right with and by the Party, for history has provided no other way of being in the right... And if the Party adopts a decision which one or other of us thinks unjust, he will say, just or unjust, it is my party, and I shall support the consequences of the decision to the end.

If Olympia Snow and I were talking together on the floor of the House, Newt Gingrich would send his boys over to tell her to get back to the Republican side of the aisle.

Successful and unsuccessful political policies have one commonalty. The people who created the policies thought they would be successful.