Kim Jong-un Quotes

I will not do anything against the basic principles of my party. The Bharatiya Janata Party will function under its declared policy.

Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

The Catholic Church is and has been one of the strongest and most consistent counter-revolutionary forces in society. In [our] struggles we find this organization a formidable opponent. The reason for this is its ideological unity and its organizational centralization. If we revolutionists have not already learned these lessons in our experience, we could learn the value of ideological unity and organizational centralization from the Catholic Church.

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

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

It has long been noted that two of the Conservative Party's great strengths have been the loyalty of its members and its pragmatic approach to policy challenges.

This will not be disloyalty but will show that as members of a party they are loyal first to the fine things for which the party stands and when it rejects those things or forgets the legitimate objects for which parties exist, then as a party it cannot command the honest loyalty of its members.

Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line

Believing as I do in political parties, I had rather that the party ... should, in its conferences, make a declaration than to assume a leadership or take an individual position on the question.

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

A man of sound political instincts can no more subscribe to the doctrine of absolute independence of party on the one hand than to that of unquestioning party allegiance on the other…. If we had no party allegiance, our politics would become mere windy anarchy, and, under present conditions, our government could hardly continue at all. If we had no independence, we should always be running the risk of the most degraded kind of despotism,—the despotism of the party boss and the party machine.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the '50s. I apologized for following the party line so slavishly, for not seeing that Stalin was a supremely cruel misleader.

Thus it comes about that (with some few exceptions) we have a House of Commons composed of a number of mediocrities who are content to echo the shibboleths of their party, to vote like sheep and to respond to the crack of the party whip.

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.

The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.

Many in my party [Republican Party] are more interested in finding heretics than they are in finding converts

I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.

The Republican party is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Donald Trump.

The primary effect of the campaign was to reinforce the party affliation of most of the voters. Individuals tended to expose themselves to the propaganda of their own party more than to the progaganda of the other party.

It is not the intelligence community's place to set and implement policy.

The Way of an enlightened ruler is to make it so that no minister may make a proposal and then fail to match it with actions and results.

Our MPs will take decisions on how they're voting on a day-to-day basis. But I'm the leader of the party, and in terms of our overall strategy and how we vote on key issues, then ultimately, those decisions will be mine.

We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.

The secretariat will play a pivotal role in decision-making above a certain level, where basic policies are involved, but below that, we will have to leave the implementation to whoever is in charge.