Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

I have never commented on a caucus issue or a shadow Cabinet issue, and I'm not about to start now.

Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

We must raise our hands against the nominee of our party, and we must do it to preserve the future of the party itself.

The Republicans definitely want to fight. They are just not sure what they want to fight about.

The last thing you want to do is go up against someone in your own party and certainly your own president.

I value loyalty and believe that internal disagreements shouldn't be voiced in the media - because divided parties lose elections.

As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.

There are high hurdles for expelling someone from a party, and with good reason.

Everyone's got different views. I think you're better off staying within the party and prosecuting those views than stepping out of it.

A failure to listen to the party's grassroots was a charge regularly levelled at Theresa May - particularly over Brexit.

Caucus unity always needs to be foremost in the mind of the leader. During a leadership campaign, it's kind of natural that groupings develop, and now I have to make sure that all melts away.

As far as DSA is concerned, I'm perfectly happy to be associated with it while disagreeing with a large part of the leadership.

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

I'm part of the people who are more neutral. I'm just waiting for the dust to settle so that we can turn our guns against the Republicans.

Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

I think the Democratic Party has got to make fundamental choices.

It was all for the eventual payoff and thank-you by giving Hillary Clinton the Democrat Party presidential nomination. And it went awry in 2008 because somebody they liked better came along. Somebody they really liked better. I mean, somebody they loved better. They threw her overboard like an unwanted sack of potatoes down on the farm for Barack Hussein Obama. And she seethed, felt betrayed. Don't blame her a bit. They betrayed her big time.

We are a nation of laws, not a nation that ignores laws if it benefits the Democrat Party.

The state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.

The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.

We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going to stick up for the people.