Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

Republicans will take on people in the interest of power. Democrats will take on power in the interests of people.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

Party honesty is party expediency.

The young man who is moved in any way to contemplate an entry into public life … learns first of all to understand that there are two great political organizations, with one of which he must associate himself, learning and echoing its catch-words, accepting its leadership, and steeping himself in the belief that in it are wisdom and truth while the other party is void of both

As for life within a Legislature,— who can tell how warped and bent and twisted, and accommodated to the exigencies of party struggle become the faculties of belief?

Government is a progressive instrument for the common good.

Historically, cohesive political parties have been the glue that enables democratic political systems like ours to make the decisions needed to govern.

I will ever prefer the weal of the public and of the whole commonwealth, in making of good laws and constitutions, to any particular and private ends of mine

The appellation of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all [political] parties.

The needs of the many cannot be met by the party of the few.

The Communist Party and the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are the same in some ways ... To stay in power you've got to give people a good life and improve the economy.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties. We maintain party government not to promote intolerant partisanship but because opportunity must be given for expression of the popular will

There are some in Congress who would rather see their opponents lose than see their country win. That has got to stop…. They must find a way to put country ahead of party.

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

So long as we have government by party, the very notion of repose must be foreign to English politics. Agitation is, so to speak, endowed in this country. There is a standing machinery for producing it. There are rewards which can only be obtained by men who excite the public mind, and devise means of persuading one set of persons that they are deeply injured by another.

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

He serves his party best who helps to make it instantly responsive to every need of the people.

Bigger Than His Party.

Parties are means for good government and not its ends.

We elect these people not to represent their parties but to represent us.

If there is one good thing I can say about the Republicans, it is that they are generally better than Democrats at putting the interests of their party above the interests of any one of its members.

Believe it or not, we all share the same values in the Labour party, but there will always be differences of opinion on policy - that is in the nature of the broad-church political parties we have under our flawed first-past-the-post electoral system.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.