Meles Zenawi Quotes

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

I'm a loyal Democrat.

I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.

I was proud to be a Tory Member of Parliament for twelve years, proud to represent Buckingham as a Tory, proud to have voted with my party 99% of the time as the record shows.

I've been a staunch Republican.

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

I am a Democrat still—very still.

In the United States, it is easier to take over a party than to start a party.

I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat.

I am still a Republican. I have not changed that.

I have been a Republican as long as I can remember.

The nominee of our party, which at this - is presumed to be Donald Trump - I think that's the right team to support. That's what I've always said I would.

I've always been a Democrat; it runs in my family.

I was a Republican before Donald Trump was a Republican. I was a Republican when Donald Trump was a Democrat. I was a Republican when Donald Trump was an independent. And I'm going to be a Republican when Donald Trump gets tired of being a Republican.

Being a people's party cannot mean being a kind of all-purpose political shop that offers something for everyone.

Ties of loyalty play an understandably important part in how most MPs interact with their own party and the supporters who have elected and sustained them in their careers. As I know personally it is the strain put on those ties which constitutes the most unpleasant aspect of being at variance with one's own party line.

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

Republicans don't vote Republican because of Nancy Pelosi. They vote Republican because they are Republicans.

I come from a long line of Democrats.

At least in the U.S., the party you believe in plays a big role in how you conceive of yourself. It feels good to think that your party is smarter, and that the smarts are what drive people to your party.

When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

I comfortably can say that I am a Republican and I always will be a Republican because the Republican party is a big tent and there was not always things that I agreed with or they didn't agree with me many times. But the fact of the matter is that's the philosophy, and everything that I've heard is exactly the same.

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

You can't go out and adopt Democrat policies all the way or halfway to show that you're not what they think you are.

I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're poor, if you're any kind of minority - gay, black, Latino, anything. If you're not a rich born-again-Christian, I don't get it.