James A. Farley Quotes

The purpose is to give me a choice between two positions. If one party includes both positions, you have eliminated my right to choose .... In your determination to win everyone's vote, you could destroy the purpose of voting at all.

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

Outcome of these elections is not in doubt due to simple fact that there is only one candidate for each position…. You may be wondering why party propaganda machine attaches such importance to electoral campaign and surrounds it with such unparalleled pomp and circumstance.

There are men who will hold power by any means rather than not hold it; and who would prefer a dissolution of the union to a continuance of an administration not of their own party. They will risk all ills ... rather than permit that happiness which is dispensed by other hands than their own.

Conventions don't nominate people anymore. Primaries do.

In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when they set it up we would just have a two-party system. It just so happens that our electorate pushed towards the two-party system because it's a very good way to govern.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

If the party members want 15 left handed, Lithuanian lesbians they can have them.

The more entrenched a party in power becomes, the less likely it is to allow the kind of diversity in views that helped it achieve power in the first place.

I am doing my best to prevent the corporations and the Republican Party Machine making me the … candidate for the vice presidency in order to get rid of me here as governor.

The parliamentary regime is a regime of parties

There aren’t any independents anymore.

A political machine is a united minority working against a divided majority.

The [political] parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

Elections are about fucking your enemies. Winning is about fucking your friends.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

Without party, Parliamentary Government is impossible.

I have long held that this is a one party government, the incumbent party.

The mission of parties is to keep the people divided into factions, that they may be unable to do anything for themselves.

... a measure for party purposes which it would not become me to adopt.

In England, a Majority of Citizens does not elect the Majority of Representatives.

The most important thing to [political] parties is who is victorious—not the fairness of the process.

The political parties have no role except to stage the conventions, where you celebrate a decision that's already been made elsewhere.