Bill Bradley Quotes

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

Parties are not built by deportment.

After five o’clock we all drink the same booze.

In the field of actual politics, parties are a necessity and organization is essential. It is the duty of the citizen, therefore, to support the party that stands for right policies and to adhere closely to its official organization. Loyalty should be rewarded by positions within the gift of the party; and disloyalty should be looked upon as politician treason.

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans

Party government isn't organized for efficiency, nor to serve the people. It is organized to provide jobs for the boys

Parties are means for good government and not its ends.

A'Lelia Walker did not subsidize specific writers, but she provided a place for all kinds of people to gather. She was one of the few blacks who had the money to allow her to entertain in the large scale.

We interact with the crowd, turn it into a party.

When a party sheds it principles for victory, it will inevitably end up with neither.

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.

On those rare occasions when successful [political] reform organizations have been welded together they have developed techniques of political astuteness, leadership and discipline not unlike political machines.

Since the breakdown of party discipline, lobbyists have been able to pick off those members [of Congress] most strapped for cash.

Regardless of how principled and ideological a political party may be, an essential point of party politics is to find jobs for the faithful of the winning party. If jobs cannot be found, the party system withers and dies, leaving only a self-perpetuating bureaucratic oligarchy behind. A system of minimal government can provide jobs for the winning party by throwing out the jobholders of the losing faction. But if civil service law freezes jobholders in place, the function of providing jobs for the winners can only occur by expanding the number of jobs: that is, at the expense of the taxpayers and of the productive, private sector. The "spoils system" allows all the costs to be imposed upon the losing party, and not at all on the body of the taxpayers. Surely a just and admirable system: who better to bear the costs of political defeat than the losing party?

Republicans didn’t lose their majority. We lost our way.

The Liberal (Party) mentality is very different from the Tory mentality, because the Tory mentality is orientated to serve the big business interests.

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

I cannot answer your question because I am neither a Democrat or a Republican. I am a constitutional monarchy.

Grass Roots Convention

A party as such, in the course of the development of a revolution, becomes identical with the revolution.

I don’t think that a party today can aspire to be the majority party if it’s the old white guy party.

I view the traditional two parties as in some ways very evil. They've become monsters that are out of control. The two parties don't have in mind what's best for Minnesota. The only things that are important to them are their own agendas and their pork. Government's become just a battle of power between the two parties.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The history of all popular governments show how absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties

The Democrats want to help people who have been disadvantaged by the economy these last decades. The Republicans want to weaken and roll back various aspects of what the Democrats have tried to do.

Parties do often nominate losers.