Fiorello H. La Guardia Quotes

I’ve searched my conscience about leaving the Republican Party, and I decided it was better to change parties than to change my principles.

Yes, I'll stand up to the party if they're wrong and they aren't going the right way for people in Pennsylvania. But I do believe in Democratic principles.

I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.

The only problem with Republican principles is no one's following them.

I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.

It is the business of the President as party leader to do the best he can to see that the declared party platform purposes are translated into legislative and administrative action.

I am an organization Democrat. I never in my life cast a vote against my own judgement, except I had to go along with the Democratic organization. I have done that. I will do it again. You must have organization.

I am a Republican. But I am not running on the Republican platform. I'm running on my own platform. I stand for the Republicanism of Abraham Lincoln.

This will not be disloyalty but will show that as members of a party they are loyal first to the fine things for which the party stands and when it rejects those things or forgets the legitimate objects for which parties exist, then as a party it cannot command the honest loyalty of its members.

The two old parties … fight only for office. Observe how utterly both parties in this respect lack program and new leadership.

I am sorry to say I do doubt the honesty of many men that are called good at home, that have given themselves up to serve a party.

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

… to get the Republican nomination for President, you have to be an outsider.

Somebody needs to stand up [to Donald Trump] and say "This is not our party. This is not OK. This is not normal."

The real fight is within the Republican Party to get it to nominate grassroots-type candidates who the public wants, and not just some 'echo' of the other side.

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

The GOP needs to live the planks of its platform, not just offer lip service.

My decision to leave the Democrat Party was one that was not entered into lightly. The pressure of party bosses, activists, and even my colleagues, was great, but the Democrat Party has changed. It is no longer the party that my grandparents and I grew up admiring.

I said I support anyone's right to run for public office and will support those people who support positions that's in the Republican platform.

I stood by Ted Cruz in 2012. I endorsed President Trump in 2016.

I won, we won, because we grew the base of voters who share our values - not because we tried to talk Republicans into embracing us just long enough to cast a ballot.

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.

On the Republican Party platform and the major issues of the Republican Party, Charlie Dent is significantly removed from those foundational principles in his voting record.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

I am a Democrat and I love my party and I want them to have good policies and good candidates, so I hope to be supportive in some way, but I don't intend to be any kind of 'godfather' or something like that.