Charles Koch Quotes

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

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.

It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

The Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.

All parties are good.

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Direct primaries would destroy the party machinery ... and would build up a lot of personal machines, and would make every man a self-seeker, and would degrade politics by turning candidacies into bitter personal wrangles

The people who vote in the primaries are at the ideological edge of their party.

There are some men to whom party success is so important that they seem willing to endanger this country.

Republicans, Weed Out Your Progressives

I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.

Most people enjoy other people. Most people are human beings first. And affiliated with political parties second.

Politicians are elected to do what is right, but too many are just doing what is right for the party.

Both parties act in their political self-interest. Indeed, that's the purpose of a political party. But unlike Democrats, at least Republicans are honest about it.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

There are more Democratic schmucks than there are Republican ones.