Mark Green Quotes

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when Gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at that scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

Politics is not like a teeter totter. Just because one party goes down, it does not mean that they other party goes up.

All free governments are party governments.

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'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

The more entrenched a party in power becomes, the less likely it is to allow the kind of diversity in views that helped it achieve power in the first place.

Nobody who ever runs for President should be the leader of a party.

The parliamentary regime is a regime of parties

The purpose is to give me a choice between two positions. If one party includes both positions, you have eliminated my right to choose .... In your determination to win everyone's vote, you could destroy the purpose of voting at all.

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.

Democracy, Whiggery, and Cliquery, will attract their elements and foment divisions among the people, to accomplish fancied schemes and accumulate power …

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

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 isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major 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

I believe in party sponsorship. I believe in Party government as distinguished from personal government, individual, dictatorial, autocratic or what not. In a citizenship of more than 100 million it is impossible to reach an agreement upon all the questions. Parties are formed by those who reach a consensus of opinion.

In America you've got a one party state except that you've got two of them.

When we are reproached with having established a dictatorship of one party... we say, ‘Yes, it is a dictatorship of one party! This is what we stand for and we shall not shift from that position...

All [political] parties, without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.

Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. "We have a single system," he wrote, and "in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses."

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.